Deuteron production and space-momentum correlations at RHIC

Abstract

We present predictions for the formation of (anti)nuclear bound states in Au+Au central collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200A$ GeV. The coalescence afterburner was applied to the freeze-out phase space distributions of nucleons provided by the transport model, RQMD version 2.4. We study the sensitivity of the deuteron spectra to space-momentum correlations. It is found that the deuteron transverse momentum distributions are strongly affected by the nucleon space-momentum correlations.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, (latex2e uses ws-p8-50x6-00.cls), talk presented at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Symposium at the APS Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, 1999