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Influence of α-clustering nuclear structure on the rotating collision system

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In recent years, the collective motion properties of global rotation of the symmetric colliding system in relativistic energies have been investigated. In addition, the initial geometrical shape effects on the collective flows have been explored using a hydrodynamical model, a transport model, etc. In this work, we study the asymmetric \(^{12}{\mathrm {C}} + ^{197}\!\!\!{\mathrm{Au}}\) collision at \(200\,\hbox { GeV/}c\) and the effect of the exotic nuclear structure on the global rotation using a multi-phase transport model. The global angular momentum and averaged angular speed were calculated and discussed for the collision system at different evolution stages.

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    Song Zhang, Yu-Gang Ma, Jin-Hui Chen & Chen Zhong

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This work was supported in part by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFE0100900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11421505, 11220101005, 11775288, and U1232206), the Major State Basic Research Development Program in China (No. 2014CB845400), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the CAS (No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH002), and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDPB09).

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Xu, ZW., Zhang, S., Ma, YG. et al. Influence of α-clustering nuclear structure on the rotating collision system. NUCL SCI TECH 29, 186 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-018-0523-9

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