Jiangming Yao

Ab initio anatomy of quadrupole correlations in $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne

Azimuthal hadronic flow measured in ultra-relativistic ion--ion collisions provides a new means of imaging multipole correlations in the ground state of atomic nuclei. Early interpretations largely relied on a classical-rotor picture, in which the measured mean-square elliptic flow is directly related to an intrinsic q...