# Methods for systematic study of nuclear structure in high-energy collisions

## TL;DR

This paper introduces an efficient Monte Carlo-based method to systematically study nuclear structure in high-energy collisions, significantly reducing computational demands and enabling detailed analysis of nuclear properties.

## Contribution

It proposes a novel nucleon position shifting technique in Monte Carlo simulations to facilitate systematic nuclear structure studies with fewer simulated events.

## Key findings

- Method reduces the number of required simulated events by orders of magnitude.
- Enables detailed sensitivity analysis of nuclear properties in high-energy collisions.
- Facilitates systematic exploration of nuclear structure using high-precision collision data.

## Abstract

There is increasing interest in using high-energy collisions to probe the structure of nuclei, in particular with the high-precision data made possible by collisions performed with pairs of isobaric species. A systematic study requires a variation of parameters representing nuclear properties such as radius, skin thickness, angular deformation, and short-range correlations, to determine the sensitivity of the various observables on each of these properties. In this work we propose a method for efficiently carrying out such study, based on the shifting of positions of nucleons in Monte-Carlo samples. We show that by using this method, statistical demands can be dramatically reduced -- potentially reducing the required number of simulated events by orders of magnitude -- paving the way for systematic study of nuclear structure in high-energy collisions,