Measurement of the production of (anti)nuclei in p–Pb collisions at sNN=8.16TeV

Collaboration
Dec 9, 2022
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 846 (2023) 137795
  • Published: Sep 15, 2023
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Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2022-275
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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
Measurements of (anti)proton, (anti)deuteron, and (anti)3He production in the rapidity range 1<y<0 as a function of the transverse momentum and event multiplicity in p–Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair sNN=8.16TeV are presented. The coalescence parameters B2 and B3, measured as a function of the transverse momentum per nucleon and of the mean charged-particle multiplicity density, confirm a smooth evolution from low to high multiplicity across different collision systems and energies. The ratios between (anti)deuteron and (anti)3He yields and those of (anti)protons are also reported as a function of the mean charged-particle multiplicity density. A comparison with the predictions of the statistical hadronization and coalescence models for different collision systems and center-of-mass energies favors the coalescence description for the deuteron-to-proton yield ratio with respect to the canonical statistical model.
Note:
  • charged particle: multiplicity
  • multiplicity: density
  • hadronization: statistical
  • model: coalescence
  • yield: ratio
  • nucleus: production
  • model: statistical
  • multiplicity: high
  • particle identification
  • time-of-flight