The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism

Arguments are presented that the reaction products of central high energy nuclear collisions up to collider energies can rigorously be interpreted in terms of a continuous decoupling mechanism based on continuous equations of motion. The various aspects of the collision dynamics are investigated in...

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Main Author: Jörn Knoll
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Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
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description Arguments are presented that the reaction products of central high energy nuclear collisions up to collider energies can rigorously be interpreted in terms of a continuous decoupling mechanism based on continuous equations of motion. The various aspects of the collision dynamics are investigated in terms of the individual decoupling processes. Thereby each observed particle decouples during its own temporal decoupling window. This includes a “very late” decoupling of the faintly bound Hypertritons observed in recent ALICE experiments. The success of the strategy is based upon 200 years old wisdom and leads to a revised interpretation of the entire decoupling process.
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spelling doaj-art-4e6790d86b2b4c0baae8cebb3ffff10a2025-08-20T02:48:58ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932024-12-0185913909110.1016/j.physletb.2024.139091The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanismJörn Knoll0GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, GermanyArguments are presented that the reaction products of central high energy nuclear collisions up to collider energies can rigorously be interpreted in terms of a continuous decoupling mechanism based on continuous equations of motion. The various aspects of the collision dynamics are investigated in terms of the individual decoupling processes. Thereby each observed particle decouples during its own temporal decoupling window. This includes a “very late” decoupling of the faintly bound Hypertritons observed in recent ALICE experiments. The success of the strategy is based upon 200 years old wisdom and leads to a revised interpretation of the entire decoupling process.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932400649XContinuous decouplingFreeze-in
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The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
Physics Letters B
Continuous decoupling
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title The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
title_full The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
title_fullStr The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
title_full_unstemmed The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
title_short The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: A challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
title_sort fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments a challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism
topic Continuous decoupling
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