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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 296, 2024
30th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2023)
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| Article Number | 03005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Astrophysics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429603005 | |
| Published online | 26 June 2024 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429603005
Constraining (anti)nuclei measurements relevant for astrophysics with ALICE
Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany
* e-mail: chiara.pinto@cern.ch
Published online: 26 June 2024
Antinuclei can be produced in space either by collisions of highenergy cosmic rays with the interstellar medium or from the annihilation of dark matter particles stemming into standard model particles. High-energy hadronic collisions at accelerators create a suitable environment for producing light (anti)nuclei. Hence, studying the production of (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at the LHC can provide crucial insights into the production mechanisms of nuclear states in our Universe. Recent measurements of the production of (anti)nuclei in and out of jets, and as a function of rapidity in pp collisions at √S = 13 TeV have been carried out with ALICE. The latter allow for the extrapolation of the nuclear production models at forward rapidity, region of interest for indirect searches of dark matter. Recent results on the annihilation crosssection of antinuclei are also discussed in the context of astrophysical measurements of cosmic ray flux. Such information is essential to study the different sources of antinuclei in our Universe and to interpret any future measurement of antinuclei in space.
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