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In this paper, a data-driven method to precisely simulate the detector response of the anti-neutron depositing in the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC)at BESIII is introduced. A large anti-neutron data sample can be selected using the decay…

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Utilizing the large quantity of hyperons and antihyperons produced by the decay of 10 billion $J/\psi$ and 2.7 billion $\psi(3686)$ collected at BESIII, the cross sections of several specific elastic or inelastic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-05-31 Han Miao , Jianyu Zhang

In recent years, ALICE has extensively studied the production of light (anti)(hyper)nuclei in different collision systems and center-of-mass energies. Nevertheless, the production mechanisms of light (hyper)nuclei is still unclear and under…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Chiara Pinto

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are powerful numerical tools to accurately solve the Schr\"odinger equation for nuclear systems, a necessary step to describe the structure and reactions of nuclei and nucleonic matter starting from realistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-01 Stefano Gandolfi , Diego Lonardoni , Alessandro Lovato , Maria Piarulli

We discuss lattice simulations of light nuclei at leading order in chiral effective field theory. Using lattice pion fields and auxiliary fields, we include the physics of instantaneous one-pion exchange and the leading-order S-wave contact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bugra Borasoy , Evgeny Epelbaum , Hermann Krebs , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner

Nuclear collisions recreate conditions in the universe microseconds after the Big Bang. Only a very small fraction of the emitted fragments are light nuclei, but these states are of fundamental interest. We report the observation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-03-11 The STAR Collaboration , B. I. Abelev

A simple method to explore the interaction of antihyperons in nuclei by exclusive hyperon-antihyperon pair production close to threshold in antiproton nucleus interactions is proposed. Due to energy and momentum conservation event-by-event…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Josef Pochodzalla

We propose a high-precision x-ray spectroscopy experiment of antiprotonic atoms to advance the understanding of low-energy antinucleon-nucleus interactions. The current leading model of antiproton-nucleus interactions is based on an optical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-02 Takashi Higuchi , Hiroyuki Fujioka

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

We show how to produce antideuteron, antihelium, and other antinuclei in large fractions from the decays of a new particle $\phi$ that carries baryon number. Close to threshold, the production of nuclear bound states is preferred over the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-10 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman

The article describes the research program pursued by the TEXONO Collaboration towards an experiment to observe coherent scattering between neutrinos and the nucleus at the power reactor. The motivations of studying this process are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Henry T. Wong

This paper begins with a summary of the status of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, including the lead-ion injector chain and the plans for the first phases of commissioning and operation with colliding proton beams. In a later phase, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-09-02 John M. Jowett

High-energy nuclear collisions provide a unique environment for synthesizing both nuclei and antinuclei (such as $\bar{d}$ and $\overline{^4\text{He}}$) at temperatures ($k_BT\sim100$ MeV) nearly two orders of magnitude above their binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Li-Yuan Zhang , Che Ming Ko , Yu-Gang Ma , Qi-Ye Shou , Kai-Jia Sun , Rui Wang , Song Zhang

The Fermi LAT collaboration has built up a detailed Monte Carlo simulation to characterize the instrument response and tune its performance. The simulation code is built around the widely used GEANT4 toolkit and was carefully validated…

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The paper focuses on a proposal for an underground antineutrino antenna to further develop the dectection of these particles as a tool to map the distribution of radiogenic heat sources, such as the natural radionuclides and a hypothetical…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. de Meijer , E. R. van der Graaf , K. P. Jungmann

Since its release in 1999, the LHC experiments have been evaluating GEANT4 in view of adopting it as a replacement for the obsolescent GEANT3 transport MonteCarlo. The ALICE collaboration has decided to perform a detailed physics validation…

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The study of photon-induced reactions in collisions of heavy nuclei at RHIC and the LHC has become an important direction of the research program of these facilities in recent years. In particular, the production of vector mesons in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 M. Broz , J. G. Contreras , J. D. Tapia Takaki

Cesium Iodide (CsI) crystals are widely used in high-energy physics for their scintillation properties that enable detection of charged and neutral particles via direct and indirect ionization and form the basis of electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-04 Si-Cheng Yuan , Liang-Liang Wang , Wei-Dong Li

In carbon-therapy, the interaction of the incoming beam with human tissues may lead to the production of a large amount of nuclear fragments and secondary light particles. An accurate estimation of the biological dose deposited into the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-06-02 J. Dudouet , D. Cussol , D. Durand , M. Labalme

Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed and tested for studying the passage of charged particle beams and radiation through the crystalline matter at energies from tens of MeV up to hundreds of GeV. The developed Monte Carlo code…

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