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Production of light nuclei and hypernuclei at High Intensity Accelerator Facility energy region

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Heavy-ion collisions are powerful tools for studying hypernuclear physics. We develop a dynamical coalescence model coupled with an ART model (version 1.0) to study the production rates of light nuclear clusters and hypernuclei in heavy-ion reactions, for instance, the deuteron (d), triton (t), helium (\(^3\)He), and hypertriton (\(^3_\Lambda \)H) in minimum bias (0–80% centrality) \(^6\)Li + \(^{12}\)C reactions at beam energy of 3.5A GeV. The penalty factor for light clusters is extracted from the yields, and the distributions of \(\theta \) angle of particles, which provide direct suggesetions about the location of particle detectors in the near future facility—High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) are investigated. Our calculation demonstrates that HIAF is suitable for studying hypernuclear physics.

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The original version of this article is revised. In the original publication of this article equations. 1–7 and equation. 9 have been incorrectly online published. The correct version of the equations is updated in this original article.

This work was supported in part by the Major State Basic Research Development Program in China (Nos. 2014CB845401 and 2015CB856904), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11421505, 11520101004, 11275250, 11322547 and U1232206), and Key Program of CAS for the Frontier Science (No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH002).

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41365-017-0224-9.

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Liu, P., Chen, JH., Ma, YG. et al. Production of light nuclei and hypernuclei at High Intensity Accelerator Facility energy region. NUCL SCI TECH 28, 55 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-017-0207-x

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