NBI Heavy-ion Seminar: Imaging nuclear structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Thursday 9 Jun 2022, 11:15 → 12:45 Europe/Copenhagen

Q meeting room (NBI)

You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute)

Title: Imaging nuclear structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Professor Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University & Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Abstract:

The hydrodynamic modeling of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) permits us today to perform quantitative extractions of the transport properties of the QGP, and constrain its initial condition. A growing body of experimental evidence shows that the QGP initial condition is strongly impacted by the shape and radial structure of the colliding nuclei. We discuss the exciting prospect of using precision flow measurements as a tool to image the structure of atomic nuclei, and show how such measurements probe the quadrupole, octupole, and triaxial deformations of the colliding ions, as well as their neutron skin. Motivated by recent measurements from RHIC and LHC, we discuss in particular the case of collisions of isobaric nuclei, which provide a clean access route to the collective structure of the colliding ions. We discuss the implications of structure information obtained from high-energy collisions, and how it is related to that obtained in traditional low-energy experiments. Exploration of the intersection between high-energy and low-energy probes of atomic nuclei may open a new exciting direction of research in nuclear physics.

Time: June 9th, 2022 at 11.15 AM.

Zoom: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/67447132801?pwd=TUkwQ1lwUzVSdzgrYi9qYXQ5ZTduZz09

passcode: 2022

1 Imaging nuclear structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook University & BNL)

JiangyongJia_nbi (1).pdf