The 23rd International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB23)

Production of baryon clusters of B=+-1 to +-4 in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Not scheduled

20m

1.Plenary Strange and exotic matter, including hypernuclear physics Plenary

Speaker

Zhangbu Xu (Kent State University and Brookhaven National Lab)

Description

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide unprecedent environment for creating complex few-body nuclei, hypernuclei and their antimatter partners. In addition, baryon transport over several unit of rapidity in heavy-ion collisions provides a unique opportunity to distinguish whether the baryon number is traced by the proposed Y-shaped gluon junction (B=1) or is carried by the valence quarks. In this talk, I will present the latest study of baryon transport, the discovery of new antimatter hypernuclei (B=-4), nuclear cluster (B=2,3) as a probe dynamics of the system, and improved measurements of lifetime and binding energy of hypernuclei (B=3,4).