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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 105, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.105.014908
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [BR 4000/7-1, BL 982/3-1]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-42-04101]
- GSI-IN2P3 agreement [13-70]
- COST Action THOR [CA15213]
- European Union [824093]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-42-04101] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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This study focuses on the production of clusters and hypernuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using the PHQMD approach. The PHQMD model allows for the dynamic formation of clusters and the investigation of their time evolution. The results are compared with experimental data and provide important insights into the puzzle of ice in fire phenomenon observed in heavy-ion collisions.
We study cluster and hypernuclei production in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies employing the parton-hadron-quantum-molecular-dynamics (PHQMD) approach, a microscopic n-body transport model based on the QMD propagation of the baryonic degrees of freedom with density dependent two-body potential interactions. All other ingredients of PHQMD, including the collision integral and the treatment of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase, are adopted from the parton-hadron-string-dynamics (PHSD) approach. In PHQMD the cluster formation occurs dynamically, caused by the interactions. The clusters are recognized by the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm. We present the PHQMD results for cluster and hypernuclei formation in comparison with the available experimental data at energies available at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the Super Proton Synchrotron, and the Beam Energy Scan and fixed-target programs at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We also provide predictions on cluster production for the upcoming experiments at the GSI Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA). PHQMD allows one to study the time evolution of formed clusters and the origin of their production, which helps to understand how such weakly bound objects are formed and survive in the rather dense and hot environment created in heavy-ion collisions. It offers therefore an explanation of the ice in the fire puzzle.
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