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Deuterons at LHC: "snowballs in hell" via hydrodynamics and hadronic afterburner

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arxiv 1809.03071 v2 pith:DATV56MX submitted 2018-09-10 hep-ph

Deuterons at LHC: "snowballs in hell" via hydrodynamics and hadronic afterburner

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keywords deuterontemperatureafterburnerdeuteronshadronichellhydrodynamicssnowballs
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The deuteron yield in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV is consistent with thermal production at a freeze-out temperature of $T = 155$ MeV. The existence of deuterons with binding energy of 2.2 MeV at this temperature was described as "snowballs in hell". We provide a microscopic explanation of this phenomenon, utilizing relativistic hydrodynamics and switching to a hadronic afterburner at the above mentioned temperature of $T = 155$ MeV. The measured deuteron $p_T$-spectra and coalescence parameter $B_2(p_T)$ are reproduced without free parameters, only by implementing experimentally known cross-sections of deuteron reactions with hadrons, most importantly $\pi d \leftrightarrow \pi n p$.

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