Evidence of Quadrupole and Octupole Deformations in ^{96}Zr+^{96}Zr and ^{96}Ru+^{96}Ru Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies.

In the hydrodynamic model description of heavy-ion collisions, the elliptic flow v_{2} and triangular flow v_{3} are sensitive to the quadrupole deformation β_{2} and octupole deformation β_{3} of the colliding nuclei. The relations between v_{n} and β_{n} have recently been clarified and were found to follow a simple parametric form. The STAR Collaboration has just published precision v_{n} data from isobaric ^{96}Ru+^{96}Ru and ^{96}Zr+^{96}Zr collisions, where they observe large differences in central collisions v_{2,Ru}>v_{2,Zr} and v_{3,Ru}