# Quark Matter 2018

13-19 May 2018
Venice, Italy
Europe/Zurich timezone
The organisers warmly thank all participants for such a lively QM2018! See you in China in 2019!

## Parameterization of deformed nuclei for Glauber modeling in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

15 May 2018, 17:00
2h 40m
First floor and third floor (Palazzo del Casinò)

### First floor and third floor

#### Palazzo del Casinò

Poster Correlations and fluctuations

### Speaker

Qi-Ye Shou (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics)

### Description

The density distributions of large nuclei are typically modeled with a Woods-Saxon distribution characterized by a radius $R_{0}$ and skin depth $a$. Deformation parameters $\beta$ are then introduced to describe non-spherical nuclei using an expansion in spherical harmonics $R_{0}(1+\beta_2Y^0_2+\beta_4Y^0_4)$. But when a nucleus is non-spherical, the $R_{0}$ and $a$ inferred from electron scattering experiments that integrate over all nuclear orientations cannot be used directly as the parameters in the Woods-Saxon distribution. In addition, the $\beta_2$ values typically derived from the reduced electric quadrupole transition probability B(E2)$\uparrow$ are not directly related to the ones used in the spherical harmonic expansion.

In this talk, I present a method to calculate the $R_0$, $a$, and $\beta_2$ values that when used in a Woods-Saxon distribution, will give results consistent with electron scattering data, and then tabulate such parameters for nuclear species recently used in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, including U, Xe, Ru and Zr. The calculations of the second and third harmonic participant eccentricity ($\varepsilon$) with the new and old parameters are also presented and compared. It is demonstrated that $\varepsilon$ is sensitive to $a$, therefore, using the incorrect parameters has important implications for the extraction of viscosity to entropy ratio ($\eta/s$) from the QGP.

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### Primary author

Qi-Ye Shou (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics)

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