Production of hypernuclei in peripheral relativistic ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper investigates hypernuclei production in relativistic ion collisions, showing yield increases above certain energies and dependence on isotopic composition, with implications for discovering exotic hypernuclei.

Contribution

It introduces a dynamical and statistical model to analyze hypernuclei production, highlighting energy thresholds, saturation effects, and isotopic influences in relativistic collisions.

Findings

Hypernuclei yields increase significantly above Lambda hyperon energy thresholds.

Yields saturate at energies up to a few TeV.

Isotopic composition of projectiles influences hypernuclei production, enabling access to exotic hypernuclei.

Abstract

Within a dynamical and statistical approach we study the main regularities in production of hypernuclei coming from projectile and target residues in relativistic ion collisions. We demonstrate that yields of hypernuclei increase considerably above the energy threshold for Lambda hyperons, and there is a saturation for yields of single hypernuclei with increasing the beam energy up to few TeV. Production of specific hypernuclei depend very much on the isotopic composition of the projectile, and this gives a chance to obtain exotic hypernuclei that may be difficult to reach in traditional hypernuclear experiments. Possibilities for the detection of such hypernuclei with planned and available relativistic ion facilities are discussed.