Probing the size and binding energy of the hypertriton in heavy ion collisions [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12643


The hypertriton is predicted to have a small binding energy (a weighted average of about 170 keV), consistent with a large matter radius (~ 10 fm), large than the historical11Li halo discovered more than 35 years ago. But the reported experimental values of the binding energy of the hypertriton range from 50 to 500 keV. In this work I discuss the electromagnetic response and interaction radius of the hypertriton and how high energy heavy ion collisions (~ 1 – 2 GeV/nucleon) can help achieving a higher accuracy for the determination of its size and binding energy.

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C. Bertulani
Thu, 24 Nov 22
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Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures