Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider
Abstract
We show within the color glass condensate framework that exclusive vector meson production at high energy is very sensitive to the geometric deformation of the target nucleus at multiple length scales. We show that different multipole deformation parameters affect different regions of transverse momentum transfer. These results have two important consequences: (1) Deformations of nuclear targets need to be taken into account when making predictions for and interpreting certain observables at the EIC. (2) Differential diffractive vector meson production has the potential to become a powerful tool, enabling the most direct measurements of nuclear structure at different length scales, ranging from large scale nuclear deformation at low transverse momentum transfer to fluctuations on nucleon- and subnucleon-size scales at higher transverse momentum transfer.
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2023
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Peer reviewed
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0031-9007
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.062301
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English
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Physical Review Letters
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- Mäntysaari, H., Schenke, B., Shen, C., & Zhao, W. (2023). Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider. Physical Review Letters, 131, Article 062301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.062301
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European Commission
European Commission
Research Council of Finland
Research Council of Finland
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RIA Research and Innovation Action, H2020
ERC Advanced Grant
Academy Research Fellow, AoF
Research costs of Academy Research Fellow, AoF
RIA Research and Innovation Action, H2020
ERC Advanced Grant
Akatemiatutkija, SA
Akatemiatutkijan tutkimuskulut, SA
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This research was supported in part by the INT’s U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER41132. B. P. S. and C. S. are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under DOE Contract No. DE-SC0012704 and Award No. DE-SC0021969, respectively. C. S. acknowledges a DOE Office of Science Early Career Award. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, within the framework of the Saturated Glue (SURGE) Topical Theory Collaboration. H. M. is supported by the Academy of Finland, the Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter, and Projects No. 338263 and No. 346567, and under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program by the European Research Council (ERC, Grant Agreement No. ERC-2018-ADG-835105 YoctoLHC) and by the STRONG-2020 project (Grant Agreement No. 824093). W. B. Z. is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. ACI-2004571 within the framework of the XSCAPE project of the JETSCAPE Collaboration. The content of this article does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union, and responsibility for the information and views expressed therein lies entirely with the authors. This research was done using resources provided by the Open Science Grid (OSG) [59,60], which is supported by the National Science Foundation Award No. 2030508.
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