Production of light nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is well described by the thermal model, where light nuclei are in equilibrium with all other hadron species present in a fireball, and by the coalescence model, where light nuclei are formed due to final state interactions after the fireball decays. A method is proposed to falsify one of the models. We suggest to measure a...
The statistical hadronization model ThermalFist was applied to numerous
hadron yields measured in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3 GeV, including recently published yields of ϕ-mesons, measured by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration. We consistently used the energy-dependent widths of Breit-Wigner mass distributions of hadronic resonances, as this approach was generally found to...
I will discuss the influence which the glasma, that is produced in the earliest phase of heavy-ion collisions, has on transport of hard probes. First, I will describe the method that we use to study the early time dynamics of the collision, which includes the expansion of the glasma fields in the proper time. Then, I will briefly discuss main characteristics of the glasma encoded in the...
We discuss medium effects on light cluster production in the QCD phase diagram within a generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck (GBU) approach by relating Mott transition lines to those for chemical freeze-out. We find that in heavy-ion collisions at highest energies provided by the LHC light cluster abundances should follow the statistical model because of low baryon densities [1]. Chemical freeze-out in...
