https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01021-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Methods for systematic study of nuclear structure in high-energy collisions
1
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 1371, Butantã, 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
2
Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W. Green St., 61801-3080, Urbana, IL, USA
3
Institut de physique théorique, Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, CEA, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Received:
8
March
2023
Accepted:
30
April
2023
Published online:
22
May
2023
There is increasing interest in using high-energy collisions to probe the structure of nuclei, in particular with the high-precision data made possible by collisions performed with pairs of isobaric species. A systematic study requires a variation of parameters representing nuclear properties such as radius, skin thickness, angular deformation, and short-range correlations, to determine the sensitivity of the various observables on each of these properties. In this work we propose a method for efficiently carrying out such study, based on the shifting of positions of nucleons in Monte-Carlo samples. We show that by using this method, statistical demands can be dramatically reduced — potentially reducing the required number of simulated events by orders of magnitude — paving the way for systematic study of nuclear structure in high-energy collisions.
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