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author Giacalone, Giuliano
Jia, Jiangyong
Somà, Vittorio
Zhou, You
Afanasjev, Anatoli
Alvioli, Massimiliano
Bally, Benjamin
Capellino, Federica
Ebran, Jean-Paul
Elfner, Hannah
Gardim, Fernando G.
Giannini, André V.
Grassi, Frédérique
Grossi, Eduardo
Hammelmann, Jan
Kirchner, Andreas
Lee, Dean
Luzum, Matthew
Mehrabpour, Hadi
Nielsen, Emil G.
Nijs, Govert
Nikšić, Tamara
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
Ollitrault, Jean-Yves
Otsuka, Takaharu
Pala, Kevin P.
Perera, Udeshika C.
Robledo, Luis M.
Rodríguez, Tomás R.
Ryssens, Wouter
Saß, Nils
van der Schee, Wilke
Schenke, Björn
Serenone, Willian M.
Singh, Pragya
Shen, Chun
Shimizu, Noritaka
Song, Huichao
Taghavi, Seyed Farid
Teaney, Derek
Tsunoda, Yusuke
Wimmer, Kathrin
Yanase, Kota
Zhang, Chunjian
Zhao, Shujun
Zhao, Wenbin
author_facet Giacalone, Giuliano
Jia, Jiangyong
Somà, Vittorio
Zhou, You
Afanasjev, Anatoli
Alvioli, Massimiliano
Bally, Benjamin
Capellino, Federica
Ebran, Jean-Paul
Elfner, Hannah
Gardim, Fernando G.
Giannini, André V.
Grassi, Frédérique
Grossi, Eduardo
Hammelmann, Jan
Kirchner, Andreas
Lee, Dean
Luzum, Matthew
Mehrabpour, Hadi
Nielsen, Emil G.
Nijs, Govert
Nikšić, Tamara
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
Ollitrault, Jean-Yves
Otsuka, Takaharu
Pala, Kevin P.
Perera, Udeshika C.
Robledo, Luis M.
Rodríguez, Tomás R.
Ryssens, Wouter
Saß, Nils
van der Schee, Wilke
Schenke, Björn
Serenone, Willian M.
Singh, Pragya
Shen, Chun
Shimizu, Noritaka
Song, Huichao
Taghavi, Seyed Farid
Teaney, Derek
Tsunoda, Yusuke
Wimmer, Kathrin
Yanase, Kota
Zhang, Chunjian
Zhao, Shujun
Zhao, Wenbin
contents High-energy collisions involving the $A=96$ isobars $^{96}$Zr and $^{96}$Ru have been performed in 2018 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) as a means to search for the chiral magnetic effect in QCD. This would manifest itself as specific deviations from unity in the ratio of observables taken between $^{96}$Zr+$^{96}$Zr and $^{96}$Ru+$^{96}$Ru collisions. Measurements of such ratios (released at the end of 2021) indeed reveal deviations from unity, but these are primarily caused by the two collided isobars having different radial profiles and intrinsic deformations. To make progress in understanding RHIC data, nuclear physicists across the energy spectrum gathered in Heidelberg in 2022 as part of an EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force (RRTF) to address the following question. Does the combined effort of low-energy nuclear structure physics and high-energy heavy-ion physics enable us to understand the observations made in isobar collisions at RHIC?
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spellingShingle Nuclear Physics Confronts Relativistic Collisions Of Isobars
Giacalone, Giuliano
Jia, Jiangyong
Somà, Vittorio
Zhou, You
Afanasjev, Anatoli
Alvioli, Massimiliano
Bally, Benjamin
Capellino, Federica
Ebran, Jean-Paul
Elfner, Hannah
Gardim, Fernando G.
Giannini, André V.
Grassi, Frédérique
Grossi, Eduardo
Hammelmann, Jan
Kirchner, Andreas
Lee, Dean
Luzum, Matthew
Mehrabpour, Hadi
Nielsen, Emil G.
Nijs, Govert
Nikšić, Tamara
Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn
Ollitrault, Jean-Yves
Otsuka, Takaharu
Pala, Kevin P.
Perera, Udeshika C.
Robledo, Luis M.
Rodríguez, Tomás R.
Ryssens, Wouter
Saß, Nils
van der Schee, Wilke
Schenke, Björn
Serenone, Willian M.
Singh, Pragya
Shen, Chun
Shimizu, Noritaka
Song, Huichao
Taghavi, Seyed Farid
Teaney, Derek
Tsunoda, Yusuke
Wimmer, Kathrin
Yanase, Kota
Zhang, Chunjian
Zhao, Shujun
Zhao, Wenbin
Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
High-energy collisions involving the $A=96$ isobars $^{96}$Zr and $^{96}$Ru have been performed in 2018 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) as a means to search for the chiral magnetic effect in QCD. This would manifest itself as specific deviations from unity in the ratio of observables taken between $^{96}$Zr+$^{96}$Zr and $^{96}$Ru+$^{96}$Ru collisions. Measurements of such ratios (released at the end of 2021) indeed reveal deviations from unity, but these are primarily caused by the two collided isobars having different radial profiles and intrinsic deformations. To make progress in understanding RHIC data, nuclear physicists across the energy spectrum gathered in Heidelberg in 2022 as part of an EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force (RRTF) to address the following question. Does the combined effort of low-energy nuclear structure physics and high-energy heavy-ion physics enable us to understand the observations made in isobar collisions at RHIC?
title Nuclear Physics Confronts Relativistic Collisions Of Isobars
topic Nuclear Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01454