# $\rm ^3_{\Lambda}H$ and $\rm ^3_{\overline \Lambda}\overline H$ production and characterization in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=200$GeV

## TL;DR

This study investigates the production and characteristics of hypertriton and anti-hypertriton nuclei in Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV, revealing that their yields increase with collision centrality and suggesting the formation of deconfined quark matter.

## Contribution

It introduces a combined use of the coalescence and PACIAE models to analyze hypernuclei production in Cu+Cu collisions at high energy.

## Key findings

- Yields of light nuclei and hypernuclei increase with collision centrality.
- Anti-particle to particle ratios remain constant across centralities.
- Strangeness population factor S_3 is close to unity, indicating similar phase-space populations for strange and light quarks.

## Abstract

Production of the (anti)hypertriton nuclei $\rm ^3_{\Lambda}H$ and $\rm ^3_{\overline \Lambda}\overline H$ in Cu+Cu interactions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=200$GeV is studied at three centrality bins of 0-10\%, 10-30\% and 30-60\% using the dynamically constrained phase-space coalescence model together with [PACIAE] model simulations. The $\rm ^3H(^3\overline H)$ and $\rm ^3He(^3\overline {He})$ nuclei has been compared. It is indicated by the study that the yields of light nuclei and hypernuclei increase rapidly from peripheral to central collisions while their anti-particle to particle ratios keep unchanged for different centrality bins. The strangeness population factor $S_3=\rm{{^3_{\Lambda}H}/({^3{He}}\times \Lambda/p)}$ was found to be close to unity, and was compatible with the STAR data and theoretical model calculation, suggesting that the phase-space population of strange quarks is similar with the ones of light quarks and the creation of deconfined high temperature quark matter in Cu+Cu collisions.