Tomography of ultrarelativistic nuclei with polarized photon-gluon collisions

Brandenburg, James D.

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq3903

Title: Tomography of ultrarelativistic nuclei with polarized photon-gluon collisions

Journal Article · Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq3903· OSTI ID:1908371

Brandenburg, James D. ^[1]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

A linearly polarized photon can be quantized from the Lorentz-boosted electromagnetic field of a nucleus traveling at ultrarelativistic speed. When two relativistic heavy nuclei pass one another at a distance of a few nuclear radii, the photon from one nucleus may interact through a virtual quark-antiquark pair with gluons from the other nucleus, forming a short-lived vector meson (e.g., ρ⁰). In this experiment, the polarization was used in diffractive photoproduction to observe a unique spin interference pattern in the angular distribution of ρ⁰ → π⁺π^– decays. The observed interference is a result of an overlap of two wave functions at a distance an order of magnitude larger than the ρ⁰ travel distance within its lifetime. The strong-interaction nuclear radii were extracted from these diffractive interactions and found to be 6.53 ± 0.06 fm (¹⁹⁷Au) and 7.29 ± 0.08 fm (²³⁸U), larger than the nuclear charge radii. The observable is demonstrated to be sensitive to the nuclear geometry and quantum interference of nonidentical particles.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Hungarian Academy of Sciences; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; Czech Science Foundation (GA CR); Government of India, Department of Science and Technology; National Science Centre (Poland) (NSC); Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports; Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Contributing Organization:: STAR Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1908371

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1990044

Report Number(s):: BNL-223867-2023-JAAM

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2375-2548

Publisher:: AAASCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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