TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV
AU - Acharya, S
AU - Adolfsson, Jonatan
AU - Basu, Sumit
AU - Christiansen, Peter
AU - Matonoha, Oliver
AU - Nassirpour, Adrian
AU - Ohlson, Alice
AU - Oskarsson, Anders
AU - Richert, Tuva
AU - Vazquez Rueda, Omar
AU - Silvermyr, David
AU - Zurlo, N
AU - ALICE Collaboration
PY - 2022/1/20
Y1 - 2022/1/20
N2 - 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 paper, the latest results about the production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV are presented, focusing on the comparison with the predictions of coalescence and thermal models. For the first time, the coalescence parameters B2 for deuterons and B3 for helions are compared with parameter-free theoretical predictions that are directly constrained by the femtoscopic measurement of the source radius in the same event class. A fair description of the data with a Gaussian wave function is observed for both deuteron and helion, supporting the coalescence mechanism for the production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions. This method paves the way for future investigations of the internal structure of more complex nuclear clusters, including the hypertriton. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2022, The Author(s).
AB - 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 paper, the latest results about the production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV are presented, focusing on the comparison with the predictions of coalescence and thermal models. For the first time, the coalescence parameters B2 for deuterons and B3 for helions are compared with parameter-free theoretical predictions that are directly constrained by the femtoscopic measurement of the source radius in the same event class. A fair description of the data with a Gaussian wave function is observed for both deuteron and helion, supporting the coalescence mechanism for the production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions. This method paves the way for future investigations of the internal structure of more complex nuclear clusters, including the hypertriton. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2022, The Author(s).
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP01(2022)106
DO - 10.1007/JHEP01(2022)106
M3 - Article
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2022
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 106
ER -