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{
  "DOI": "10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138943", 
  "abstract": "<p>In this letter, measurements of (anti)alpha production in central (0\u201310%) Pb\u2013Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon\u2013nucleon pair of $\\sqrt{{s}_{\\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV are presented, including the first measurement of an antialpha transverse-momentum spectrum. Owing to its large mass, the production of (anti)alpha is expected to be sensitive to different particle production models. The production yields and transverse-momentum spectra of nuclei are of particular interest because they provide a stringent test of these models. The averaged antialpha and alpha spectrum is compared to the spectra of lighter particles, by including it into a common blast-wave fit capturing the hydrodynamic-like flow of all particles. This fit is indicating that the (anti)alpha also participates in the collective expansion of the medium created in the collision. A blast-wave fit including only protons, (anti)alpha, and other light nuclei results in a similar flow velocity as the fit that includes all particles. A similar flow velocity, but a significantly larger kinetic freeze-out temperature is obtained when only protons and light nuclei are included in the fit. The coalescence parameter ${B}_{4}$ is well described by calculations from a statistical hadronization model but significantly underestimated by calculations assuming nucleus formation via coalescence of nucleons. Similarly, the (anti)alpha-to-proton ratio is well described by the statistical hadronization model. On the other hand, coalescence calculations including approaches with different implementations of the (anti)alpha substructure tend to underestimate the data.</p>", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "CERN \u0130\u015fbirli\u011fi"
    }
  ], 
  "container_title": "Physics Letters B", 
  "id": "274817", 
  "issue": "", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2024, 
        8, 
        10
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "title": "Measurement of (anti)alpha production in central Pb\u2013Pb collisions at TeV", 
  "type": "article-journal", 
  "volume": "858 C"
}