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Freya Blekman
@freyablekman@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

The LHC recently collided Oxygen and Neon ions. These are lighter than the 'normal' Lead collisions, so they are a very important input to understanding how nuclear interactions change depending on the size of what is colliding. This #CMSPaper observes "collective flow", essentially a sign of the quark gluon plasma, in those collisions and compares it to the best available theoretical predictions (that all have some disagreement) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02580

arXiv.org

Observation of long-range collective flow in OO and NeNe collisions and implications for nuclear structure studies

The long-range collective flow of particles produced in oxygen-oxygen (OO) and neon-neon (NeNe) collisions is measured with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data samples were collected at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV, with integrated luminosities of 7 nb$^{-1}$ and 0.8 nb$^{-1}$ for OO and NeNe collisions, respectively. Two- and four-particle azimuthal correlations are measured over nearly five units of pseudorapidity. Significant elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) flow harmonics are observed in both systems. The ratios of $v_n$ coefficients between NeNe and OO collisions reveal sensitivity to quadrupole correlations in the nuclear wave functions. Hydrodynamic models with $\textit{ab initio}$ nuclear structure inputs qualitatively reproduce the collision-overlap dependence of both the $v_n$ values and the NeNe to OO ratios. These measurements provide new constraints on hydrodynamic models for small collision systems and offer valuable input on the nuclear structure of $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne.
showing how the flow changes versus how central the collision is (50% is heads on nuclei, 0% is skimming nuclei)
showing how the flow changes versus how central the collision is (50% is heads on nuclei, 0% is skimming nuclei)
showing how the flow changes versus how central the collision is (50% is heads on nuclei, 0% is skimming nuclei)
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Zorro
@zorrobandito@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@freyablekman I love that there exists "quark gluon plasma" and now I want to know more.

This post was A+ on the internet-is-useful scale and a zero on my post-is-about-cats scale.

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Freya Blekman
@freyablekman@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@zorrobandito … starts searching for LhC cat memes

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Zorro
@zorrobandito@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@freyablekman oh no! Please don't do that, there's far too much cat content already - a zero is a good thing! 😄

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