Addressing the hypertriton lifetime puzzle with ALICE at the LHC
Trogolo, Stefano; Acharya, Shreyasi; Acosta, Fernando T.; Adamová, Dagmar; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Neelima; Ahammed, Zubayer; Alme, Johan; Altenkaemper, Lucas; Djuvsland, Øystein; Ersdal, Magnus Rentsch; Fionda, Fiorella Maria Celeste; Nystrand, Joakim; Rehman, Attiq Ur; Røhrich, Dieter; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Ullaland, Kjetil; Wagner, Boris; Zhou, Zhuo; Arsene, Ionut Cristian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Dordic, Olja; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier; Lindal, Svein; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Malik, Qasim Waheed; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhao, Chengxin; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Nesbø, Simon Voigt; Storetvedt, Maksim Melnik; Helstrup, Håvard; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen André; Ahn, Sang Un; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Al-Turany, Mohammad; Alam, Sk Noor; Albuquerque, D. S. D.; Aleksandrov, Dmitry; Alessandro, Bruno; ALICE, Collaboration
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.11.016Abstract
The ALICE Collaboration collected a large data sample of Pb-Pb collisions at√sNN=5.02 TeV in 2015 at the LargeHadron Collider (LHC) and the excellent particle identification (PID) capabilities allow for the detection of rarelyproduced (anti-)hypernuclei. In particular, the (anti-)hypertriton,3ΛH, which is a bound state of a proton, a neutron andaΛ, is the lightest known hypernucleus.The results on the3ΛH production are compared with the predictions from a model based on coalescence approachand from statistical-thermal models to investigate the production mechanisms in heavy-ion collisions. Emphasis willalso be put on the latest and more precise determination of the3ΛH lifetime.