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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

Based on nucleons ($p$, $n$) and hyperons ($\Lambda$, $\Omega^-$) formed at kinetic freeze-out from a quark combination model, we systematically study the production of light nuclei and hyper-nuclei in the hadronic coalescence picture. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Jiang-He Qiao , Jian-Yu Liu , Yan-Ting Feng , Feng-Lan Shao , Rui-Qin Wang

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

The dynamics of exotic hypernuclei in heavy-ion collisions has been investigated thoroughly with a microscopic transport model. All possible channels on hyperon ($\Lambda$, $\Sigma$ and $\Xi$) production near threshold energies are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Zhao-Qing Feng

A variety of phenomena, which reveal itself in distant collisions of ultrarelativistic nuclei is discussed. One or both nuclei may be disintegrated in a single collision event by the long-range electromagnetic forces due to the impact of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. A. Pshenichnov

Understanding the production mechanism of light (anti)nuclei is one of the key challenges of nuclear physics and has important consequences for astrophysics, since it provides an input for indirect dark-matter searches in space. In this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-06 ALICE Collaboration

With the kinetic freeze-out nucleons and antinucleons obtained from the quark combination model, we study the production of light nuclei and antinuclei in the (anti-)nucleon coalescence mechanism in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-16 Xiang-Yu Zhao , Yan-Ting Feng , Feng-Lan Shao , Rui-Qin Wang , Jun Song

The description of structural and dynamical properties of nuclei starting from the fundamental interaction between nucleons has been a long-standing goal in nuclear physics. The ab initio No-Core Shell Model combined with the…

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 extend an analytical nucleon coalescence model with hyperons to study productions of light nuclei, hypertritons and $\Omega$-hypernuclei in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV. We derive the formula of the momentum distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Rui-Qin Wang , Xin-Lei Hou , Yan-Hao Li , Jun Song , Feng-Lan Shao

The measurement of (anti)nuclei production in pp, p-A and A-A collisions at ultrarelativistic energies is important to understand hadronization. The excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities of ALICE make it the most…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-10-07 Chiara Pinto

Antideuteron and antihelium nuclei have been proposed as a detection channel for dark matter annihilations and decays in the Milky Way, due to the low astrophysical background expected. To estimate both the signal for various dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-15 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , J. Tjemsland

We suggest to explore an entirely new method to experimentally and theoretically study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter based on the triple nuclear collisions (TNC). We simulated the TNC using the UrQMD 3.4 model at the beam…

The study of the production of nuclei and antinuclei in pp collisions has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation mechanism of loosely bound states in high-energy hadronic collisions. In this paper, the production of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-11 ALICE Collaboration

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

The energy densities reached in high-energy hadronic collisions at the LHC allow significant production of light (anti)nuclei. Their production yields have been measured as a function of $p_{\rm T}$ and charged-particle multiplicity in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Chiara Pinto

An overview of nuclei and anti-nuclei production with results from different experiments are discussed. The comparison of data with the thermal and coalescence models is also discussed to understand their production mechanisms in high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-10 Natasha Sharma

The production mechanism of (anti)nuclei in ultrarelativistic hadronic collisions is under debate in the scientific community. Two successful models used for the description of the experimental measurements are the statistical hadronization…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-08 Chiara Pinto

Understanding the production mechanism of light (anti-)nuclei in high-energy nuclear collisions and cosmic rays has been a long-standing problem in nuclear physics. In the present study, we develop a stochastic method to solve the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-25 Kai-Jia Sun , Rui Wang , Che Ming Ko , Yu-Gang Ma , Chun Shen

Light nuclei production as a result of nuclear coalescence effect can give some signals on final state of Quark Gluon Plasma formation. We are studying the behavior of nuclear modification factor as a function of different variables using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-15 K. H. Khan , M. K. Suleymanov , Z. Wazir , E. U. Khan , Mahnaz Q. Haseeb , M. Ajaz