A new window into the deformation of nuclei has been recently opened with the realisation that nuclear collision experiments performed at high-energy colliders, such as the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) or the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), give access to the shape of the colliding isotopes. A collaboration between high- and low-energy theorists, including researchers from IRFU, has shown that quantitative information on nuclear deformations can be obtained and has presented, for the first time in this framework, evidence of the triaxial structure of a nucleus, namely the isotope 129Xe.
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