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Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-03 ALICE Collaboration

The production of light (anti-)nuclei and (anti-)hypertriton in a recent collsion system size scan program proposed for the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is investigated by using the dynamically constrained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Zhi-Lei She , Gang Chen , Dai-Mei Zhou , Liang Zheng , Yi-Long Xie , Hong-Ge Xu

The first measurement of event-by-event antideuteron number fluctuations in high energy heavy-ion collisions is presented. The measurements are carried out at midrapidity ($|\eta| < 0.8$) as a function of collision centrality in Pb$-$Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-06 ALICE Collaboration

We present a new approach to estimate the effect of the gluon shadowing in nucleus+nucleus collisions and its consequences on the J/psi production yield. Using kinematical information available from the measured J/psi production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 E. G. Ferreiro , F. Fleuret , A. Rakotozafindrabe

Light antinucleus yields are calculated in a multiphase transport model (AMPT) coupled with a dynamical coalescence model. The model is tuned to reproduce the transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of antiproton in $pp$ collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Tianhao Shao , Jinhui Chen , Yu-Gang Ma , Zhangbu Xu

The annihilation of antiprotons on deuterons at rest are investigated for the case when pion-nucleon and pion-delta-isobar pairs are produced. The two-step mechanism is investigated by analysing these processes when either neutral particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. I. Lykasov , M. P. Bussa , L. Valacca

The search for antideuterons in cosmic rays has been proposed as a promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for dark matter particles with a low or intermediate mass. With the current operational phase of the AMS-02…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 N. Fornengo , L. Maccione , A. Vittino

Elliptic flow of deuterons is measured on simulated collisions events of Pb+Pb at CMS energy of 2.76 TeV per colliding nucleon pair. We use hybrid model that includes hydrodynamics for the deconfined phase and hadron transport as an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Tomas Polednicek , Radka Vozabova , Boris Tomasik

Dark matter searches in gamma ray final states often make use of the fact that photons can be produced from final state muons. Modern Monte Carlo generators and DM codes include the effects of final state radiation from muons produced in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Andre Scaffidi , Katherine Freese , Jinmian Li , Christopher Savage , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

The antideuteron and antihelium-3 production rates at high-energy heavy ion collisions are calculated in the framework of fusion mechanism when participating particles are moving in the mean field of other fireball constituents. It is shown…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Shushpanov

Cosmic antideuterons are considered as one of the most promising tools for the indirect detection of dark matter due to their ultra-low astrophysical backgrounds. Currently only upper limits on the antideuteron flux exist, but advancements…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-25 Jie Pu , Xin Li , Kai-Jia Sun , Chun-Wang Ma , Lie-Wen Chen

In the frame of the Wigner function formalism, we derive a coalescence model to use with a hydrodynamical picture of the reaction zone

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Scheibl , U. Heinz

Recently, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) Collaboration presented tentative evidence for the detection of cosmic antihelion-3 (${}^3\overline{\rm He}$) events, alongside a comparable number of antideuterons ($\overline{\rm D}$). If…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-11 Mattia Di Mauro , Adil Jueid , Jordan Koechler , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Dark-matter particles that annihilate or decay can undergo complex sequences of processes, including strong and electromagnetic radiation, hadronisation, and hadron decays, before particles that are stable on astrophysical time scales are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Adil Jueid , Jochem Kip , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Peter Skands

The deuteron binding energy is only 2.2 MeV. At the same time, its yield in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $2.76 TeV corresponds to a thermal yield at the temperature around 155 MeV, which is too hot to keep deuterons bound. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-07 Dmytro Oliinychenko , Long-Gang Pang , Hannah Elfner , Volker Koch

The search for an excess of antideuterons in the cosmic rays flux has been proposed as a very promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for WIMPs with a low or intermediate mass. With the development of the AMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Vittino , N. Fornengo , L. Maccione

If studies of electroweak gauge boson final states at the Large Hadron Collider, for Standard Model physics and beyond, are sensitive to effects of the initial state's transverse momentum distribution, appropriate generalizations of QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Dooling , F. Hautmann , H. Jung

We study the momentum dependence of the production of light nuclei in high energy collisions in the nucleon coalescence/recombination mechanism. We derive formulas of the momentum distributions of deuterons ($d$) and helions ($^3$He). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Rui-Qin Wang , Feng-Lan Shao , Jun Song

Using the coalescence model based on the phase-space distributions of protons, neutrons, Lambdas and their antiparticles from a multiphase transport (AMPT) model, we study the production of deuteron, triton, helium 3, hypertriton,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Lilin Zhu , Che Ming Ko , Xuejiao Yin

The production of pions by antiproton-deuteron annihilation at rest is analyzed. Assuming the possible existence of two delta-isobars in a deuteron some enhancement in the distribution over the invariant mass of two negative charged pions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 O. Yu. Denisov , S. D. Kuksa , G. I. Lykasov