Many-body correlations for nuclear physics across scales: from nuclei to quark-gluon plasmas to hadron distributions
It is an experimental fact that multi-particle correlations in the final states of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions are sensitive to collective correlations of nucleons in the wave functions of the colliding nuclei. Here, I show that this connection is more direct than it intuitively seems. Wi...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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18 December 2023
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The European physical journal. A, Hadrons and nuclei
Year: 2023, Volume: 59, Issue: 12, Pages: 1-21 |
| ISSN: | 1434-601X |
| DOI: | 10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7 
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| Author Notes: | Giuliano Giacalone |
| Summary: | It is an experimental fact that multi-particle correlations in the final states of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions are sensitive to collective correlations of nucleons in the wave functions of the colliding nuclei. Here, I show that this connection is more direct than it intuitively seems. With an energy deposition scheme inspired by high-energy quantum chromodynamics, and within a linearized description of initial-state fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma, I exhibit relations between N-particle correlations in the final states of nuclear collisions and N-nucleon density distributions in the colliding nuclei. This result formally justifies the sensitivity of the outcome of high-energy collisions to features such as nuclear deformations. It paves the way, thus, to systematic studies of the impact of state-of-the-art nuclear interactions in such processes. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 25.03.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1434-601X |
| DOI: | 10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7 |