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           11:00 - 12:00     Journal Club: Experiment & Phenomenology – Hybrid Format
Imaging shapes of atomic nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions

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Abstract:

Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear forces within femtometer-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes, traditionally explored using non-invasive spectroscopic techniques at low energies. However, at these energies, their instantaneous shapes are obscured by long-timescale quantum fluctuations, making direct observation challenging. Here we introduce the collective flow assisted nuclear shape imaging method, which images the nuclear global shape by colliding them at ultrarelativistic speeds and analyzing the collective response of outgoing debris. T ...