Phys.Rev. C 109, L051904 (2024)

Yu.Wang, Sh.Zhao, B.Cao, H.-j.Xu, H.Song

Exploring the compactness of α clusters in ¹⁶O nuclei with relativistic ¹⁶O+¹⁶O collisions

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁶O(¹⁶O, X), √ s_NN = 6.5 TeV; calculated sensitivity to compactness of the α-clusters in light nuclei of following collision observables - mean transverse momenta, two-particle correlator, elliptic flow, triangular flow, Pearson correlation coefficients. Simulations with iEBE-VISHNU event-by-event hybrid model that combines the TRENTo model generating the initial stage, the VISH2+1 describing the collective expansion of the QGP, and the UrQMD simulating the evolution of the hadron cascade in the hadronic rescattering process.

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE ¹⁶O; calculated two-dimensional density distributions of tetrahedral configurations (4 α-clusters).

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.109.L051904