2024

Mäntysaari, Heikki; Schenke, Björn; Shen, Chun; Zhao, Wenbin

We perform high-statistics simulations to study the impacts of nuclear structure on the ratios of anisotropic flow observables in 208Pb+208Pb and 129Xe+129Xe collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Even with 40% difference in atomic numbers between 208Pb and 129Xe nuclei, the ratios of anisotropic flow in the same centrality class between the two collision systems are strongly affected by the nuclear structure inputs in the initial state. The ratios of v2{4}/v2{2} in these collisions are sensitive to the nuclear skin thickness of the colliding nuclei, providing indirect constraints on the nuclei's neutron skin. Our model predictions serve as a benchmark to compare with experimental measurements.