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SS24 – Abstract
Giuliano Giacalone
(ITP Heidelberg)
16.5.2024
Imaging atomic nuclei at high-energy colliders: a new window onto the strong nuclear force (Pre-talk 15:30)
Recent experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that multi-particle correlation measurements in the soft sector of heavy-ion collisions probe the details of the spatial distributions of nucleons in the colliding ions. These findings have lead to remarkable advances in matching notions from low-energy nuclear physics to hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions, which I shall discuss in this talk. I show that nuclear structure theory is today an integral part of the hydrodynamic framework of heavy-ion collisions, and that issues opened by collider data have improved the state-of-the-art of this area in several directions. I argue that this has opened a new direction in nuclear physics research, and highlight prospects and benefits from future studies (both theoretical and experimental) connecting effective descriptions of QCD matter across different energy scales.
