In this talk, I shall discuss unexpected connections that have emerged recently
between nuclear structure and relativistic heavy ion collisions. In particular, I
shall show how the flow patterns of particles produced in heavy ion collisions at
high energy can provide accurate information on low energy properties of nuclei,
such as deformations, collective modes, etc
In recent years an intriguing and somehow surprising connection between low-energy nuclear structure and high-energy ion collisions has been established.
In this talk I will discuss such a connection by first reviewing some results of nuclear structure theory and then applying them to the description of hadron distributions in relativistic nuclear collisions.
Observations of the heaviest neutron stars, together with mass and radius
measurements, and gravitational wave signals from binary neutron neutron star
mergers, progressively tighten the constraints on the equation-of-state of dense
baryonic matter. Using the presently available data base, results are presented of
detailed Bayesian inference analyses. A focus is on prerequisites and...
