https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01194-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Probe nuclear structure using the anisotropic flow at the Large Hadron Collider
1
China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
2
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3
Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
4
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11976, Upton, NY, USA
Received:
18
September
2023
Accepted:
7
November
2023
Published online:
22
November
2023
Recent studies have shown that the shape and radial profile of the colliding nuclei have strong influences on the initial condition of the heavy ion collisions and the subsequent development of the anisotropic flow. Using A Multi-Phase Transport model (AMPT) model, we investigated the impact of nuclear quadrupole deformation 
and nuclear diffuseness 
of 
Xe on various of flow observables in Xe–Xe collisions at 
5.44 TeV. We found that has a strong influence on central collisions while mostly influences the mid-central collisions. The relative change of flow observables induced by a change in and are also found to be insensitive to the values of parameters controlling the strength of the interaction among final state particles. Our study demonstrates the potential for constraining the initial condition of heavy ion collisions using future system scans at the LHC.
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