$^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ at RHIC and the LHC comparing $\alpha$ clustering vs substructure

Understand

Collisions of light and heavy nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been shown to be sensitive to nuclear structure.

• With a proposed $^{16}\mathrm{O}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ run at the LHC and RHIC we study the potential for finding $\alpha$ clustering in $^{16}$O.
• Here we use the state-of-the-art iEBE-VISHNU package with $^{16}$O nucleonic configurations from {\rm ab initio} nuclear lattice simulations.
• This setup was tuned using a Bayesian analysis on pPb and PbPb systems.