Properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti) hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV

TL;DR

This study models the production of light (anti)nuclei and hypertriton in Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV, showing their yields depend on collision centrality and match experimental data, with yields increasing with mass number in central collisions.

Contribution

It introduces a combined PACIAE and DCPC model to analyze light (anti)nuclei and hypertriton production, providing new insights into their yield dependence on collision centrality and mass number.

Findings

Yields decrease with increasing centrality bins.

Yield ratios are independent of centrality.

Yields per participant increase with mass number in central collisions.

Abstract

We investigate the properties of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV, based on the parton and hadron cascade and dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence (PACIAE + DCPC) model. We found that the yields of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypertriton strongly depend on the centrality, i.e., their yields decrease rapidly with the increase of centrality bins, but their yield ratios are independent of centrality. The results of theoretical model are well consistent with ALICE data. Furthermore, we found that the integrated yields of (anti)nuclei per participant nucleon increase from peripheral to central collisions more rapidly with increasing mass number. The transverse momentum distributions of $\overline{_{\overline\Lambda}^3 H}, {_{\Lambda}^3 H},{\overline{^3 He}}$ and $^3{{He}}$ are also discussed in the 0-10% most central Pb-Pb collisions.The coalescence parameters $B_A$ of light (anti)nuclei and (anti)hypernuclei are analyzed.