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The formation of weakly bound clusters in the hot and dense environment at midrapidity is one of the surprising phenomena observed experimentally in heavy-ion collisions from a low center of mass energy of a few GeV up to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 V. Kireyeu , G. Coci , S. Glaessel , J. Aichelin , C. Blume , E. Bratkovskaya

Using a dynamical model based on the $NN \to d\pi$, $NNN \to dN$, and $NN\pi \to d\pi$ reactions and measured proton and pion transverse momentum spectra and elliptic flows, we study the production of deuterons and their elliptic flow in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yongseok Oh , Che Ming Ko

We have investigated the method of extracting the temperature from weighted proton-to-neutron yield ratio from fusion reactions as in the previous experiment~[W. Bang, {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{111}, 055002 (2013).] using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Zhe Zhu , Jun Xu

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 yields of hadrons and light nuclei in relativistic collisions of heavy-nuclei at a center of mass energy of 2.6 TeV can be described remarkably well by a thermal distribution of an ideal gas of hadrons and light nuclei interacting only…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Thomas Cohen , Maneesha Pradeep

We present predictions for the formation of (anti)nuclear bound states in nucleus-nucleus reactions at RHIC energies. he phase space coalescence method is used in combination with RQMD-v2.4 transport calculations to demonstrate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 B. Monreal , W. J. Llope , R. Mattiello , S. Y. Panitkin , H. Sorge , N. Xu

Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the moment their preceding off-shell photon is created. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

A variety of phenomena connected with the formation of a dinuclear complex is observed in the heavy ion collisions at low energies. The dinuclear system model allows us to analyze the experimental data and to interpret them by comparison of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 A. K. Nasirov , G. Giardina , G. Mandaglio , M. Manganaro , W. Scheid

The entropy production in medium energy heavy-ion collisions is analyzed in terms of ratio of deuteronlike to protonlike clusters ($d_{like}/p_{like}$) using \emph{quantum molecular dynamics} (QMD) model. The yield ratios of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Yogesh K. Vermani , Rajeev K. Puri

The current status of various thermal and statistical descriptions of particle production in the ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions experiments is presented in detail. We discuss the formulation of various types of thermal models of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-06 S. K. Tiwari , C. P. Singh

We consider deuteron formation in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies. The elementary reaction rates (Nd -> NNN) in this context are calculated using rigorous Faddeev methods. To this end an in-medium Faddeev equation that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beyer , C. Kuhrts , G. Roepke

We update briefly our understanding of hadron production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions in terms of statistical models with emphasis on the relation of the data to the QCD phase boundary and on a puzzle in the beam energy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Braun-Munzinger

Light (anti-)nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are considered to be formed by the coalescence mechanism of (anti-)nucleons in the present work. Using a dynamical phase-space coalescence model coupled with a multi-phase transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-13 Yi-Lin Cheng , Song Zhang , Yu-Gang Ma

Light nuclei production is sensitive to the baryon density fluctuations and can be used to probe the QCD phase transition in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we studied the production of proton, deuteron, triton in central…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-18 Hui Liu , Dingwei Zhang , Shu He , Kai-jia Sun , Ning Yu , Xiaofeng Luo

The deuteron disintegration process with the emission of fast proton in the vicinity of the kinematical boundary of the reaction, when Feynman variable $x\to 2$, is studied. The consideration is fulfilled in the framework of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Braun , V. V. Vechernin

Light nuclei production in heavy-ion collisions serves as a sensitive probe of the QCD phase structure. In coalescence models, triton ($N_t$) and deuteron ($N_d$) yields depend on the spatial separation of nucleon pairs ($\Delta r$) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Qian-Ru Lin , Yu-Jing Huang , Long-Gang Pang , Xiao-Feng Luo , Xin-Nian Wang

In ultra high-energy collisions, nuclei with very low binding energies are not expected to survive the dense and hot final state environment. The traditional view has therefore been that nuclei form via coalescence after the hot environment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-06 Sushanta Tripathy , Peter Christiansen

Using the nucleon coalescence model, which can naturally take into account the correlations in the nucleon density distribution, we study the effects of QCD critical point on light nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Kai-Jia Sun , Che Ming Ko , Feng Li

The understanding of the mechanisms for the production of weakly bound clusters, such as a deuteron $d$, in heavy-ion reactions at mid-rapidity is presently one of the challenging problems which is also known as the "ice in a fire" puzzle.…

The formation of deuterons in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies is investigated by employing two recently advanced models -- the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) method and the coalescence model by embedding them in the PHQMD and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Viktar Kireyeu , Jan Steinheimer , Jörg Aichelin , Marcus Bleicher , Elena Bratkovskaya