@article{fea4256e7cee4a6cb38d318128aef0ee,
title = "(Anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions at √s=13TeV",
abstract = "The study of (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation mechanism of loosely bound states in high-energy hadronic collisions. In this paper the production of (anti-)deuterons is studied as a function of the charged particle multiplicity in inelastic pp collisions at s=13 TeV using the ALICE experiment. Thanks to the large number of accumulated minimum bias events, it has been possible to measure (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions up to the same charged particle multiplicity (d Nch/ d η∼ 26) as measured in p–Pb collisions at similar centre-of-mass energies. Within the uncertainties, the deuteron yield in pp collisions resembles the one in p–Pb interactions, suggesting a common formation mechanism behind the production of light nuclei in hadronic interactions. In this context the measurements are compared with the expectations of coalescence and statistical hadronisation models (SHM).",
author = "{ALICE Collaboration} and S. Acharya and D. Adamov{\'a} and A. Adler and J. Adolfsson and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and {Aglieri Rinella}, G. and M. Agnello and N. Agrawal and Z. Ahammed and S. Ahmad and Ahn, {S. U.} and A. Akindinov and M. Al-Turany and Alam, {S. N.} and Albuquerque, {D. S.D.} and D. Aleksandrov and B. Alessandro and Alfanda, {H. M.} and {Alfaro Molina}, R. and B. Ali and Y. Ali and A. Alici and A. Alkin and J. Alme and T. Alt and L. Altenkamper and I. Altsybeev and Anaam, {M. N.} and C. Andrei and D. Andreou and Andrews, {H. A.} and A. Andronic and M. Angeletti and V. Anguelov and C. Anson and T. Anti{\v c}i{\'c} and F. Antinori and P. Antonioli and R. Anwar and N. Apadula and L. Aphecetche and H. Appelsh{\"a}user and S. Arcelli and R. Arnaldi and M. Arratia and Arsene, {I. C.} and M. Arslandok and A. Augustinus and R. Averbeck and L. Fabbietti",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8256-4",
language = "English",
volume = "80",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "9",
}