Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2024-10-10 v1
Abstract
The discovery of exotic mounic atoms, including antimatter hydrogen muonic atoms and kaon mounic atoms, constitutes a milestone in our ability to make and study new forms of matter. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide the only likely condition for production and detection of these exotic atoms. Taking a Coulomb correlations into account from the time of the fireball freeze-out until the formation of a stable atom has dramatic consequence on the expected yields of these atoms. When the coalescence model with the assumption of quantum wave function localization is applied to the formation of muonic atoms, we find that the atom yields are about two orders of magnitude higher than previously predicted.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.06518,
title = {Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC},
author = {Xiaofeng Wang and Frank Geurts and Zebo Tang and Kefeng Xin and Zhangbu Xu and Yifei Zhang and Long Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06518},
year = {2024}
}