Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC
The discovery of exotic muonic atoms, including antimatter hydrogen muonic atoms and kaon muonic atoms, constitutes a milestone in our ability to make and study new forms of matter. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide the only likely condition for production and detection of these exotic atoms...
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| author | Xiaofeng Wang Frank Geurts Zebo Tang Kefeng Xin Zhangbu Xu Yifei Zhang Long Zhou |
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| description | The discovery of exotic muonic atoms, including antimatter hydrogen muonic atoms and kaon muonic atoms, constitutes a milestone in our ability to make and study new forms of matter. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide the only likely condition for production and detection of these exotic atoms. Taking Coulomb correlations into account from the time of the fireball freeze-out, which refers to the cessation of hadronic interactions in the high-temperature, high-density region formed after the collision, until the formation of a stable atom has dramatic consequences on the expected yields of these atoms. When the coalescence model with the assumption of quantum wave function localization is applied to the formation of muonic atoms, we find that the atom yields are about two orders of magnitude higher than previously predicted. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-34ea9421b2f74e5594e367c4bb23eabe2025-02-10T04:33:51ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932025-02-01861139242Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHICXiaofeng Wang0Frank Geurts1Zebo Tang2Kefeng Xin3Zhangbu Xu4Yifei Zhang5Long Zhou6Shandong University, Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Qingdao, Shandong, 266237, ChinaRice University, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, Houston, TX, 77005, USAUniversity of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, ChinaRice University, T.W. Bonner Nuclear Laboratory, Houston, TX, 77005, USAKent State University, Department of Physics, Kent, OH, 44242, USA; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Upton, NY, 11973, USA; Corresponding author.University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, ChinaUniversity of Science and Technology of China, Department of Modern Physics, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, ChinaThe discovery of exotic muonic atoms, including antimatter hydrogen muonic atoms and kaon muonic atoms, constitutes a milestone in our ability to make and study new forms of matter. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide the only likely condition for production and detection of these exotic atoms. Taking Coulomb correlations into account from the time of the fireball freeze-out, which refers to the cessation of hadronic interactions in the high-temperature, high-density region formed after the collision, until the formation of a stable atom has dramatic consequences on the expected yields of these atoms. When the coalescence model with the assumption of quantum wave function localization is applied to the formation of muonic atoms, we find that the atom yields are about two orders of magnitude higher than previously predicted.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000024 |
| spellingShingle | Xiaofeng Wang Frank Geurts Zebo Tang Kefeng Xin Zhangbu Xu Yifei Zhang Long Zhou Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC Physics Letters B |
| title | Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC |
| title_full | Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC |
| title_fullStr | Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC |
| title_short | Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC |
| title_sort | coalescence formation of muonic atoms at rhic |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325000024 |
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