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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1. Verfasser: Giacalone, Giuliano (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 18 December 2023
In: The European physical journal. A, Hadrons and nuclei
Year: 2023, Jahrgang: 59, Heft: 12, Pages: 1-21
ISSN:1434-601X
DOI:10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7
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Verfasserangaben:Giuliano Giacalone
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISSN:1434-601X
DOI:10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01200-7