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Main Authors: Wang, Y. J., Tam, C. K., Xiao, Z. G., Lynch, W. G., Tsang, C. Y., Barney, J., Jhang, G., Estee, J., Tsang, M. B., Wang, R. S., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., Park, J., Chajęcki, Z., Verde, G., Isobe, T., Kurata-Nishimura, M., Murakami, T., Ahn, D. S., Atar, L., Aumann, T., Baba, H., Boretzky, K., Brzychczyk, J., Cerizza, G., Chiga, N., Fukuda, N., Gasparic, I., Hong, B., Horvat, A., Ieki, K., Inabe, N., Kim, Y. J., Kobayashi, T., Kondo, Y., Lasko, P., Lee, H. S., Leifels, Y., Łukasik, J., Manfredi, J., McIntosh, A. B., Morfouace, P., Nakamura, T., Nakatsuka, N., Nishimura, S., Otsu, H., Pawłowski, P., Pelczar, K., Rossi, D., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Sato, H., Scheit, H., Shane, R., Shimizu, Y., Simon, H., Snoch, A., Sochocka, A., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Suzuki, D., Takeda, H., Tangwancharoen, S., Toernqvist, H., Togano, Y., Yennello, S. J., Zhang, Y.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Nuclear Experiment
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25107
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  • We report proton-proton correlation function measurements in central $^{132}$Sn+$^{124}$Sn and $^{108}$Sn+$^{112}$Sn collisions at 270 MeV/nucleon. The proton emitting source sizes are extracted for the systems by using femtoscopic imaging technique. The fast dynamic core radius for the neutron-rich system is found to be $2.22 \pm 0.13\ \text{(stat.)} \pm 0.07\ \text{(syst.)}$ fm, which is approximately 24\% larger than that for the neutron-deficient system, $1.74 \pm 0.08\ \text{(stat.)} \pm 0.05\ \text{(syst.)}$ fm. This difference is an order of magnitude larger than the $\sim$3\% difference in the ground-state charge radii of the projectile nuclei. Transport model simulations based on mean-field dynamics cannot reproduce this amplification. The observation reveals a beyond-mean-field mechanism associated to short-range neutron-proton correlations, which dynamically enhance the proton emitting source in the neutron-rich environment. Our results demonstrate that heavy-ion collisions induced by radioactive beam, combined with femtoscopic precision, provide a new hadronic probe of short-range correlation, and that careful treatment of the beyond-mean-field interactions are required in modeling such processes.

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