Calibrating the medium effects of light clusters in heavy-ion collisions
Abstract
We propose a Bayesian inference estimation of in-medium modification of the cluster self-energies from light nuclei multiplicities measured in selected samples of central XeSn collisions with the INDRA apparatus. The data are interpreted with a relativistic quasi-particle cluster approach in the mean-field approximation without any prior assumption on the thermal parameters of the model. An excellent reproduction is obtained for H and He isotope multiplicities, and compatible posterior distributions are found for the unknown thermal parameters. We conclude that the cluster--meson coupling is temperature dependent, becoming weaker when the temperature increases, in agreement with microscopic quantum statistical calculations. This implies a faster decrease of the light cluster abundances with temperature than previously estimated.
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@article{arxiv.2407.02307,
title = {Calibrating the medium effects of light clusters in heavy-ion collisions},
author = {Tiago Custódio and Alex Rebillard-Soulié and Rémi Bougault and Diego Gruyer and Francesca Gulminelli and Tuhin Malik and Helena Pais and Constança Providência},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02307},
year = {2025}
}