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Title: Proton emission in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV
The first measurements of proton emission accompanied by neutron emission in the electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) of Pb 208 nuclei in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. The EMD protons and neutrons emitted at very forward rapidities are detected by the proton and neutron zero degree calorimeters of the ALICE experiment. The emission cross sections of zero, one, two, and three protons accompanied by at least one neutron were measured in ultraperipheral Pb 208 Pb 208 collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair s N N = 5.02 TeV . The 0p and 3p cross sections are described by the RELDIS model within their measurement uncertainties, while the 1p and 2p cross sections are underestimated by the model by 17–25%. According to this model, these 0p, 1p, 2p, and 3p cross sections are associated, respectively, with the production of various isotopes of Pb, Tl, Hg, and Au in the EMD of Pb 208 . The cross sections of the emission of a single proton accompanied by the emission of one, two, or three neutrons in EMD were also measured. The data are significantly overestimated by the RELDIS model, which predicts that the (1p,1n), (1p,2n), and (1p,3n) cross sections are very similar to the cross sections for the production of the thallium isotopes Tl 206 , 205 , 204 . ©2025 CERN, for the ALICE Collaboration2025CERN  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2208883
PAR ID:
10599228
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Publisher / Repository:
APS
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Volume:
111
Issue:
5
ISSN:
2469-9985
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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