Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-30c60dae9bbc4c13b7b9df5c9ae6b0cc2025-08-20T02:59:53ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932025-03-0186213932210.1016/j.physletb.2025.139322Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisionsChunjian Zhang0Jinhui Chen1Giuliano Giacalone2Shengli Huang3Jiangyong Jia4Yu-Gang Ma5Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China; Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Corresponding authors.Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China; Corresponding authors.Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Corresponding authors.Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Corresponding authors.Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11976, USA; Corresponding authors.Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China; Corresponding authors.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).http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000826 |
| spellingShingle | Chunjian Zhang Jinhui Chen Giuliano Giacalone Shengli Huang Jiangyong Jia Yu-Gang Ma Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions Physics Letters B |
| title | Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions |
| title_full | Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions |
| title_fullStr | Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions |
| title_short | Ab-initio nucleon-nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16O+16O collisions |
| title_sort | ab initio nucleon nucleon correlations and their impact on high energy 16o 16o collisions |
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