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The coalescence model based on nucleon distribution functions from an isospin-dependent transport model is used to study the production of light clusters such as deuteron, triton, and $^{3}$He from heavy-ion collisions induced by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Lie-Wen Chen , C. M. Ko , Bao-An Li

Antinuclei can be produced in space either by collisions of high-energy cosmic rays with the interstellar medium or from the annihilation of dark matter particles stemming into standard model particles. High-energy hadronic collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-07 Chiara Pinto

We employ a hybrid approach to describe the light nuclei production mechanism where the nucleons are assumed to be thermally produced, and are allowed to form light nuclei using a coalescence prescription. In this approach, we first fit…

We study the collision energy dependence of (anti-)deuteron and (anti-)triton production in the most central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=$ 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV, using the nucleon coalescence model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Wenbin Zhao , Chun Shen , Che Ming Ko , Quansheng Liu , Huichao Song

Galactic Dark Matter (DM) annihilations can produce cosmic-ray anti-nuclei via the nuclear coalescence of the anti-protons and anti-neutrons originated directly from the annihilation process. Since anti-deuterons have been shown to offer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Taoso , Andrea Vittino

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

We use the parton and hadron cascade (PACIAE) model and the dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence (DCPC) model to investigate the productions of (anti)hypertriton and light (anti)nuclei generated by 0-10% centrality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Hai-Jun Li , Ting-Ting Zeng , Gang Chen

The antideuteron and antihelium-3 production rates at high-energy heavy ion collisions are calculated in the framework of fusion mechanism. It is supposed, that anti-p,n,d,^3He participating in the fusion are moving in the mean field of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B. L. Ioffe , I. A. Shushpanov , K. N. Zyablyuk

Besides the dedicated search for strangelets NA52 measures light (anti)particle and (anti)nuclei production over a wide range of rapidity. Compared to previous runs the statistics has been increased in the 1998 run by more than one order of…

High-energy hadronic collisions generate environments characterized by temperatures above 100 MeV [1,2], about 100,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun. It is therefore currently unclear how light (anti)nuclei with mass number A of a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-19 ALICE Collaboration

The production mechanism of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions is vital to understanding the intricate details of nucleon-nucleon interactions. The coalescence of nucleons is a well-known mechanism that attempts to explain the production…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 Yoshini Bailung , Sudhir Pandurang Rode , Neha Shah , Ankhi Roy

The production of light (anti)nuclei have been investigated using the dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence model based on the final-state hadrons generated by the PACIAE model in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=200$GeV…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Liu Feng-Xian , Chen Gang , She Zhi-Lei , Zhou Dai-Mei , Xie Yi-Long

We present, using the statistical model, an analysis of the production of light nuclei, hypernuclei and their antiparticles in central collisions of heavy nuclei. Based on these studies we provide predictions for the production yields of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Andronic , P. Braun-Munzinger , J. Stachel , H. Stoecker

The formation of light nuclei can be described as the coalescence of clusters of nucleons into nuclei. In the case of small interacting systems, such as dark matter and $e^+e^-$ annihilations or $pp$ collisions, the coalescence condition is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , J. Tjemsland

The study of antinuclei in cosmic rays provides a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. Antinuclei in our Galaxy may stem either from annihilation or decay of dark matter, or from collisions of cosmic rays with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Maximilian Mahlein , Chiara Pinto , Laura Fabbietti

We study the production of light nuclei in the coalescence mechanism in Au-Au collisions at midrapidity at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3$ GeV. We derive analytic formulas of momentum distributions of two bodies, three bodies and four nucleons coalescing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Rui-Qin Wang , Ji-Peng Lv , Yan-Hao Li , Jun Song , Feng-Lan Shao

We investigate the properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV, based on the parton and hadron cascade and dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence (PACIAE +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Zhi-Lei She , Gang Chen , Hong-ge Xu , Ting-ting Zeng , Di-Kai Li

We have investigated light nuclei pair photoproduction in relativistic heavy ion ultraperipheral collisions. As a first attempt, we employ our previously developed quantum electrodynamics model, which incorporates a wave-packet description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Jin-Yu Hu , Shuo Lin , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

The production of (anti-)deuteron and (anti-)$^{3}$He nuclei in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV has been studied using the ALICE detector at the LHC. The spectra exhibit a significant hardening with increasing centrality.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-04-12 ALICE Collaboration

Cosmic-ray (CR) antinuclei, especially antideuteron $\overline{\rm D}$ and antihelium-3 nuclei ${}^3\overline{\rm He}$, are among the most promising messengers for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. This is because secondary production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Mattia di Mauro , Jordan Koechler , Lorenzo Stefanuto , Francesca Bellini , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo