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Title: O 16 O 16 collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing α clustering versus substructure

Abstract

Collisions of . light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to be sensitive to nuclear structure. With a proposed 16O 16O run at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) we study the potential for finding α clustering in 16O. Here we use the state-of-the-art iEBE-VISHNU package with 16O nucleonic configurations from ab initio nuclear lattice simulations. This setup was tuned using a Bayesian analysis on pPb and PbPb systems. We find that the 16O 16O system always begins far from equilibrium and that at LHC and RHIC it approaches the regime of hydrodynamic applicability only at very late times. Finally, by taking ratios of flow harmonics we are able to find measurable differences between α-clustering, nucleonic, and subnucleonic degrees of freedom in the initial state.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [3];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Houston, TX (United States)
  2. China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing (China)
  3. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  4. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1836536
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0020633; SC0018638
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Heavy-Ion collisions; hydrodynamics; Quark Gluon Plasma; alpha clustering; nuclear structure

Citation Formats

Summerfield, Nicholas, Lu, Bing-Nan, Plumberg, Christopher, Lee, Dean, Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn, and Timmins, Anthony. O 16 O 16 collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing α clustering versus substructure. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.104.l041901.
Summerfield, Nicholas, Lu, Bing-Nan, Plumberg, Christopher, Lee, Dean, Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn, & Timmins, Anthony. O 16 O 16 collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing α clustering versus substructure. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.l041901
Summerfield, Nicholas, Lu, Bing-Nan, Plumberg, Christopher, Lee, Dean, Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn, and Timmins, Anthony. Mon . "O 16 O 16 collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing α clustering versus substructure". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.l041901. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1836536.
@article{osti_1836536,
title = {O 16 O 16 collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider comparing α clustering versus substructure},
author = {Summerfield, Nicholas and Lu, Bing-Nan and Plumberg, Christopher and Lee, Dean and Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn and Timmins, Anthony},
abstractNote = {Collisions of . light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to be sensitive to nuclear structure. With a proposed 16O 16O run at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) we study the potential for finding α clustering in 16O. Here we use the state-of-the-art iEBE-VISHNU package with 16O nucleonic configurations from ab initio nuclear lattice simulations. This setup was tuned using a Bayesian analysis on pPb and PbPb systems. We find that the 16O 16O system always begins far from equilibrium and that at LHC and RHIC it approaches the regime of hydrodynamic applicability only at very late times. Finally, by taking ratios of flow harmonics we are able to find measurable differences between α-clustering, nucleonic, and subnucleonic degrees of freedom in the initial state.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevc.104.l041901},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 4,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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