Production of deuterons, tritons, 3He nuclei, and their antinuclei in pp collisions at root s=0.9, 2.76, and 7 TeV

S. Acharya, J. Adam, D. Adamova, J Adolfsson, MM. Aggarwal, G.A. Rinella, Maria Agnello, Z. Ahammed, N. Ahmad, S.U. Ahn, S. Aiola, A. Akindinov, M. Al-Turany, SN Alam, J.L.B. Alba, DSD Albuquerque, D. Aleksandrov, B Alessandro, R. Alfaro Molina, A. AliciA. Alkin, Ian Bearden, Christian Alexander Bourjau, Ante Bilandzic, Marek Chojnacki, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, bsm989 bsm989, Lais Ozelin de Lima Pimentel, Freja Thoresen, Børge Svane Nielsen, Vojtech Pacik, You Zhou, Vytautas Vislavicius, Katarina Gajdosova, rtc312 rtc312

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Abstract

Invariant differential yields of deuterons and antideuterons in pp collisions at s = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV and the yields of tritons, He3 nuclei, and their antinuclei at s = 7 TeV have been measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurements cover a wide transverse momentum (pT) range in the rapidity interval |y|<0.5, extending both the energy and the pT reach of previous measurements up to 3 GeV/c for A=2 and 6 GeV/c for A=3. The coalescence parameters of (anti)deuterons and Hē3 nuclei exhibit an increasing trend with pT and are found to be compatible with measurements in pA collisions at low pT and lower energies. The integrated yields decrease by a factor of about 1000 for each increase of the mass number with one (anti)nucleon. Furthermore, the deuteron-to-proton ratio is reported as a function of the average charged particle multiplicity at different center-of-mass energies.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024615
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume97
Issue number2
Number of pages17
ISSN2469-9985
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Feb 2018

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