Evidence of Quadrupole and Octupole Deformations in and Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies

C Zhang, J Jia - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In the hydrodynamic model description of heavy-ion collisions, the elliptic flow v 2 and
triangular flow v 3 are sensitive to the quadrupole deformation β 2 and octupole deformation …

Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions

Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear
forces within femtometre-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes …

Evidence of hexadecapole deformation in uranium-238 at the relativistic heavy ion collider

W Ryssens, G Giacalone, B Schenke, C Shen - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
State-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the quark-gluon plasma are unable to
reproduce the elliptic flow of particles observed at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider …

[HTML][HTML] Missed prediction of the neutron halo in 37Mg

KY Zhang, SQ Yang, JL An, SS Zhang… - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
Halo phenomena have long been an important frontier in both experimental and theoretical
nuclear physics. 37 Mg was identified as a halo nucleus in 2014 and remains the heaviest …

Probing triaxial deformation of atomic nuclei in high-energy heavy ion collisions

J Jia - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Most atomic nuclei are deformed with a quadrupole shape described by its overall strength β
2 and triaxiality γ. The deformation can be accessed in high-energy heavy ion collisions by …

Shape of atomic nuclei in heavy ion collisions

J Jia - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
In the hydrodynamic model description of heavy ion collisions, the final-state anisotropic
flows vn are linearly related to the strengths of the multipole shape of the distribution of …

Spherical, Axial, and Triaxial Symmetries in the Study of Halo Nuclei with Covariant Density Functional Theory

Y **ang, Q Luo, S Yang, K Zhang - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
The halo phenomenon in exotic nuclei has long been an important frontier in nuclear
physics research since its discovery in 1985. In parallel with the experimental progress in …

Hexadecapole Deformation of from Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Using a Nonlinear Response Coefficient

H Xu, J Zhao, F Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The hexadecapole deformation (β 4) of the U 238 nucleus has not been determined
because its effect is overwhelmed by those from the nucleus' large quadrupole deformation …

Separating the impact of nuclear skin and nuclear deformation in high-energy isobar collisions

J Jia, G Giacalone, C Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Bulk nuclear structure properties, such as radii and deformations, leave distinct signatures in
the final state of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Isobaric collisions offer an easy route to …

Imaging the initial condition of heavy-ion collisions and nuclear structure across the nuclide chart

J Jia, G Giacalone, B Bally, JD Brandenburg… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Springer
High-energy nuclear collisions encompass three key stages: the structure of the colliding
nuclei, informed by low-energy nuclear physics, the initial condition, leading to the formation …