https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16244-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Light cluster production at NICA
1
University of Wroclaw, 50-024, Wroclaw, Poland
2
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
3
National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), 115409, Moscow, Russia
4
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
5
National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, 123182, Moscow, Russia
6
Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 03680, Kiev, Ukraine
7
INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
8
University of Rostock, D-18051, Rostock, Germany
9
Universität München, D-85748, Garching, Germany
* e-mail: gerd.roepke@uni-rostock.de
Received:
20
July
2016
Accepted:
22
July
2016
Published online:
23
August
2016
Light cluster production at the NICA accelerator complex offers unique possibilities to use these states as “rare probes” of in-medium characteristics such as phase space occupation and early flow. In order to explain this statement, in this contribution theoretical considerations from the nuclear statistical equilibrium model and from a quantum statistical model of cluster production are supplemented with a discussion of a transport model for light cluster formation and with results from hydrodynamic simulations combined with the coalescence model.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2016
