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Light nuclei can be produced in the central reaction zone via coalescence in relativistic heavy ion collisions. E864 at BNL has measured the production of ten stable light nuclei with nuclear number of A=1 to A=7 at rapidity $y\simeq1.9$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The E864 Collaboration , Zhangbu Xu

Light nuclei can be produced in the central reaction zone via coalescence in relativistic heavy ion collisions. E864 at BNL has measured the production of ten light nuclei with nuclear number of A=1 to A=7 at rapidity $y\simeq1.9$ and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The E864 Collaboration

The production of light hypernuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a unique opportunity to probe hyperon--nucleon interactions and possible three-body forces, which are central to the resolution of the hyperon puzzle in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Yue Hang Leung , Yingjie Zhou , Norbert Herrmann

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

The nucleon coalescence model is one of the most popular theoretical models for light nuclei production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The production of light nuclei $d$, $t$, $^{3}$He, and $^{4}$He is studied using the transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Yue Xu , Xionghong He , Nu Xu

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

We have used the dynamically constrained phase space coalescence model to investigate the production of light nuclei (anti-nuclei) based on the 1.134$\times 10^7$ hadronic final states generated by the PACIAE model for the 0-5% most central…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-30 Gang Chen , Yu-Liang Yan , De-sheng Li , Dai-Mei Zhou , Mei-Juan Wang , Bao-Guo Dong , Ben-Hao Sa

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 production mechanism of light (anti)nuclei in heavy-ion collisions has been extensively studied experimentally and theoretically. Two competing (anti)nucleosynthesis models are typically used to describe light (anti)nuclei yields and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Mario Ciacco

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

High energy pp, p--Pb, and Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC offer a unique opportunity to study the production of light (anti-)nuclei. The study of the production yield of (anti-)nuclei in heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies probes the late…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-02 Sebastian Hornung

We revisit the problem of the production of light atomic nuclei in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. While their production systematics is well produced by hadro-chemical freezeout at temperatures near the QCD pseudo-critical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Xinyuan Xu , Ralf Rapp

The production of light nuclei and hyper-nuclei in heavy-ion collisions, particularly at high baryon density, is crucial for understanding the dynamical evolution of the collision system and exploring the internal state of nuclear matter of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 L. K. Liu , C. L. Hu , X. H. He , S. S. Shi , G. N. Xie

In high-energy nuclear collisions, the production of light nuclei is sensitive to the temperature and phase-space density of the system at freeze-out. In addition, the phase transition from QGP to the hadronic phase will lead to large…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 Dingwei Zhang

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 yields and ratios of light nuclei in heavy-ion collisions offer a method to distinguish between the thermal and coalescence models. Ratios such as $\rm N_t \times N_p/N_d^2$ and $\rm N_{^3He} \times N_p/N_d^2$ are suggested as potential…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-03 Yixuan Jin

Light (anti-) nuclei are a powerful tool both in collider physics and astrophysics. In searches for new and exotic physics, the expected small astrophysical backgrounds at low energies make these antinuclei ideal probes for, e.g., dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , J. Tjemsland

Combining the covariant coalescence model and a blast-wave-like analytical parametrization for (anti-)nucleon phase-space freezeout configuration, we explore light (anti-)nucleus production in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-03 Kai-Jia Sun , Lie-Wen Chen

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

The thermal model properly describes the production yields of light nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions even so the loosely bound sizable nuclei cannot exist in the dense and hot hadron gas at a chemical freeze-out. Within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski