Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions

Zhang, Chunjian; Chen, Jinhui; Giacalone, Giuliano; Huang, Shengli; Jia, Jiangyong; Ma, Yu-Gang

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139322

Title: Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy ¹⁶O+¹⁶O collisions

Journal Article · Wed Feb 19 00:00:00 UTC 2025 · Physics Letters. B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139322 · OSTI ID:2520193

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Fudan University, Shanghai (China); Stony Brook University, NY (United States)
Fudan University, Shanghai (China)
Universität Heidelberg (Germany)
Stony Brook University, NY (United States)
Stony Brook University, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Investigating nucleon-nucleon correlations inherent to the strong nuclear force is one of the core goals in nuclear physics research. We showcase the unique opportunities offered by collisions of ¹⁶O nuclei at high-energy facilities to reveal detailed many-body properties of the nuclear ground state. We interface existing knowledge about the geometry of ¹⁶O coming from ab-initio calculations of nuclear structure with transport simulations of high-energy ¹⁶O+¹⁶O collisions. Bulk observables in these processes, such as the elliptic flow or the fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum, are found to depend significantly on the input nuclear model and to be sensitive to realistic clustering and short-range repulsive correlations, effectively opening a new avenue to probe these features experimentally. This finding demonstrates collisions of oxygen nuclei as a tool to elucidate initial conditions of small collision systems while fostering connections with effective field theories of nuclei rooted in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

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Research Organization:: Stony Brook University, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0024602

OSTI ID:: 2520193

Journal Information:: Physics Letters. B, Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Vol. 862; ISSN 0370-2693

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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