16–19 Jun 2025
Dipartimento di Fisica
Europe/Brussels timezone

Antinuclei production from weakly decaying $b$-hadrons

18 Jun 2025, 17:55
15m
Aula C (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Aula C

Dipartimento di Fisica

Via Pietro Giuria 1 10100 Torino

Speaker

Jordan Koechler (INFN Turin)

Description

In this talk, we present a tuning of PYTHIA and a coalescence model that leads to realistic predictions of antinuclei production. This tuning is validated against LEP data including the fragmentation function of $b$-quarks into into $b$-hadrons, which is crucial for determining the $\bar{\Lambda}_b^0$ multiplicity. The coalescence model is tuned to ALICE data for the $\overline{\text{D}}$ and ${}^3\overline{\text{He}}$ spectra. We obtain a branching ratio for the production of ${}^3\overline{\text{He}}$ from $\bar{\Lambda}_b^0$ decays that is consistent with the recent upper limit measured by LHCb. In the end, we find that the contributions of $\overline{\text{D}}$ and ${}^3\overline{\text{He}}$ from $\bar{\Lambda}_b^0$ decays are negligible compared to prompt production, challenging previous claims in the literarure.

Author

Jordan Koechler (INFN Turin)

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