Production of deuterons, tritons, He nuclei and their anti-nuclei in pp collisions at = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV
ALICE Collaboration
Invariant differential yields of deuterons and anti-deuterons in pp collisions at = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV and the yields of tritons, He nuclei and their anti-nuclei at = 7 TeV have been measured with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurements cover a wide transverse momentum () range in the rapidity interval , extending both the energy and the reach of previous measurements up to 3 GeV/ for and 6 GeV/ for . The coalescence parameters of (anti-)deuterons and nuclei exhibit an increasing trend with and are found to be compatible with measurements in pA collisions at low and lower energies. The integrated yields decrease by a factor of about 1000 for each increase of the mass number with one (anti-)nucleon. Furthermore, the deuteron-to-proton ratio is reported as a function of the average charged particle multiplicity at different center-of-mass energies.