Addressing the hypertriton lifetime puzzle with ALICE at the LHC


Trogolo S., Acharya S., Acosta F. T., Adamova D., Adolfsson J., Aggarwal M. M., ...More

NUCLEAR PHYSICS A, vol.982, pp.815-818, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 982
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.11.016
  • Journal Name: NUCLEAR PHYSICS A
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.815-818
  • Keywords: Heavy-ion collisions, hypertriton production, lifetime, HYPERNUCLEI, COLLISIONS, MODEL
  • Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The ALICE Collaboration collected a large data sample of Pb-Pb collisions at root S-NN = 5.02 TeV in 2015 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the excellent particle identification (PID) capabilities allow for the detection of rarely produced (anti-)hypernuclei. In particular, the (anti-)hypertriton, H-3(Lambda), which is a bound state of a proton, a neutron and a A, is the lightest known hypernucleus.