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Production of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Liang Zhang(张良) Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China School of Nuclear Sciences and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China    Song Zhang(张松) ID Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China    Yu-Gang Ma(马余刚) ID Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China Shanghai Research Center for Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NSFC and Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
Abstract

Even though lots of Λ\Lambda-hypernuclei have been found and measured, multi-strangeness hypernuclei consisting of Ω\Omega are not yet discovered. The studies of multi-strangeness hypernuclei help us further understand the interaction between hyperons and nucleons. Recently the ΩN\Omega N and ΩΩ\Omega\Omega interactions as well as binding energies were calculated by the HAL-QCD’s lattice Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (LQCD) simulations and production rates of Ω\Omega-dibaryon in Au + Au collisions at RHIC and Pb + Pb collisions at LHC energies were estimated by a coalescence model. The present work discusses the production of more exotic triple-baryons including Ω\Omega, namely ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N as well as their decay channels. A variation method is used in calculations of bound states and binding energy of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N with the potentials from the HAL-QCD’s results. The productions of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N are predicted by using a blast-wave model plus coalescence model in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and 2.762.76 TeV. Furthermore, plots for baryon number dependent yields of different baryons (NN and Ω\Omega), their dibaryons and hypernuclei are made and the production rate of a more exotic tetra-baryon (ΩΩNN\Omega\Omega NN) is extrapolated.

I Introduction

Hypernucleus consisting of hyperons and nucleons is described by not only mass and charge but also hypercharge. Danysz and Pniewski first discovered the HΛ3{}^{3}_{\Lambda}H from cosmic rays in 1952 Danysz and Pniewski (1953). Since then more attention has been paid to hypernuleus research and many Λ\Lambda-hypernuclei were discovered in cosmic rays as well as by accelerator beams Davis (2005); Gal et al. (2021). Recently the observation of Ξ\Xi^{-}-N14{}^{14}N was also reported by the J-PARC laboratory Hayakawa et al. (2021). Nowadays, relativistic heavy-ion collisions can produce a large number of strange hyperons Abelev et al. (2010); Chen et al. (2018); Zhang et al. (2021a, 2018), which provides a venue to discover the hypernucleus even anti-hypernucleus. The research on hypernuclei is becoming an important direction in heavy-ion collision experiments Buyukcizmeci et al. (2020). On the other hand, multi-quark exotic hadrons or hadronic molecules are also in current focus in particle and heavy-ion physics Brambilla et al. (2020); Esposito et al. (2017); Qin and Roberts (2020); Chen et al. (2020); Wu et al. (2021); Zhang et al. (2021b); Cho et al. (2017). The HAL-QCD Collaboration reported the most strangeness dibaryon candidates, ΩN\Omega N and ΩΩ\Omega\Omega Iritani et al. (2019); Gongyo et al. (2018) by the Lattice Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (LQCD) simulations. Based on their results, our previous work calculated the production of ΩΩ\Omega\Omega and ΩN\Omega N dibaryons and gave the yields of Ω\Omega-dibaryon by the blast-wave model or A Multiphase Transport (AMPT) model coupling with a coalescence model in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and 2.762.76 TeV Zhang and Ma (2020).

The attractive nature of the ΩN\Omega N interaction leads to the possible existence of an ΩN\Omega N dibaryon with strangeness = 3-3, spin = 2, and isospin = 1/2, which was first proposed in Ref. Goldman et al. (1987). Later on the HAL-QCD Collaboration calculated the Ω\Omega-NN and Ω\Omega-Ω\Omega interaction by the LQCD simulations near the physical point and the LQCD potentials are fitted by Gaussians and (Yukawa)2. The results lead to the binding energy BnΩ=1.54B_{n\Omega}=1.54 MeV, BpΩ=2.46B_{p\Omega}=2.46 MeV and BΩΩ=1.6B_{\Omega\Omega}=1.6 MeV Iritani et al. (2019); Gongyo et al. (2018). The STAR Collaboration made a first measurement of momentum correlation functions of pΩp\Omega^{-} for Au + Au collisions at s=200\sqrt{s}=200 GeV Adam et al. (2019) which indicates that the scattering length is positive for the proton-Ω\Omega interaction and favors the proton-Ω\Omega bound state hypothesis by comparing with the predictions based on the proton-Ω\Omega interaction extracted from (2 + 1)-flavor LQCD simulations Morita et al. (2016). Later on the ALICE collaboration measured the momentum correlation function of pΩp\Omega^{-} in pp collision at s=13\sqrt{s}=13 TeV Acharya et al. (2020) which supports the HAL-QCD result Iritani et al. (2019). The potentials given by the HAL-QCD Iritani et al. (2019) are also used to calculate the binding energy of Ω\Omega-hypernuclei with AA = 3. Garcilazo and Valcarce Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019) calculated the bound states of three-body Ω\Omega-hypernuclei, namely ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N, by solving the Faddeev equations Faddeev (1961) with the HAL-QCD potentials and obtained their binding energies ranging from 2 MeV to 20 MeV.

In this work the productions of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N are calculated by a coalescence model in which the nucleon and hyperon phase space distributions are given by a blast-wave model Retière and Lisa (2004); Sun and Chen (2017); Zhang et al. (2014); Zhang and Ma (2020). The potentials from the LQCD are taken into account to obtain the relative wave functions and binding energies of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N by solving Schrödinger equation via a variation method. The estimation of the yields of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N will shed light on searching for Ω\Omega-hypernuclei in experiment, such as at LHC-ALICE.

The calculation of production is introduced in Section II, which includes the brief introductions of the blast-wave model and the coalescence model Retière and Lisa (2004); Sun and Chen (2017); Zhang et al. (2014); Zhang and Ma (2020), simplification of Wigner function as well as the variation calculation method of three-body bound state. It is compared with the results from the Faddeev equations used by Garcilazo and Valcarce Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019). In Section III, productions of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N are reported for Au + Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and Pb + Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV. The decay channels of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N are also discussed in this section.

II Method

II.1 Blast-wave model and coalescence model

Cluster formation in heavy-ion collision can be realized by the coalescence model  Yan et al. (2006); Schaffner-Bielich et al. (2000); Chen et al. (2003); Zhang et al. (2010); Sun and Chen (2017) or other methods like kinetic approaches Sun et al. (2021a); Staudenmaier et al. (2021); He et al. (2020). In this work, a coalescence model constructed by the particle emission distribution and the Wigner density distribution is used to calculate few-body system production in heavy-ion collisions. The multiplicity of three-constituent-cluster is given by,

N3b=g3i=13(d4xiSi(xi,pi)d3piEi)×ρ3W(x1,x2,x3;p1,p2,p3),\displaystyle\begin{aligned} N_{3b}=g_{3}\int&\prod_{i=1}^{3}\left(d^{4}x_{i}S_{i}\left(x_{i},p_{i}\right)\frac{d^{3}p_{i}}{E_{i}}\right)\times\\ &\ \rho_{3}^{W}\left(x_{1},x_{2},x_{3};p_{1},p_{2},p_{3}\right),\end{aligned} (1)

where ρ3W(x1,x2,x3;p1,p2,p3)\rho^{W}_{3}(x_{1},x_{2},x_{3};p_{1},p_{2},p_{3}) is the Wigner density function which describes the coalescence probability, and g3=(2S+1)/((2s1+1)(2s2+1)(2s3+1))g_{3}=(2S+1)/\left((2s_{1}+1)(2s_{2}+1)(2s_{3}+1)\right) is the coalescence statistical factor Polleri et al. (1999); Zhao et al. (2018); Zhu et al. (2015); Sun et al. (2019, 2021b), SS is the total spin for the three-body system and sis_{i} is the spin for each constituent particle. Table 1 lists the g3g_{3} used in this paper for each Ω\Omega-hypernucleus (AA = 3) and triton.

Table 1: g3g_{3} for H3{}^{3}H, ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N
Nuclei H3{}^{3}H Ωpn\Omega pn Ωnn\Omega nn Ωpp\Omega pp ΩΩn\Omega\Omega n ΩΩp\Omega\Omega p
g3g_{3} 1/4 3/8 1/4 1/4 1/16 1/16

In this work the particle emission distribution, Si(xi,pi)S_{i}\left(x_{i},p_{i}\right), is given by the blast-wave model Retière and Lisa (2004); Sun and Chen (2017); Zhang et al. (2014); Zhang and Ma (2020) which can describe the particle phase-space distribution in heavy-ion collisions. It assumes that in the rest frame the distribution of momenta is described by either a Bose or Fermi distribution of single particle and then the distribution is boosted into the center-of-mass frame of the total number of particles to describe the probability of finding a particle Cooper and Frye (1974). In heavy-ion collisions, the freeze-out time is considered following a Gaussian distribution Retière and Lisa (2004); Sun and Chen (2017); Zhang et al. (2014); Zhang and Ma (2020); Waqas et al. (2020). The blast-wave model is formalized as,

S(x,p)d4x=MTcosh(ηsyp)\displaystyle S(x,p)d^{4}x=M_{T}\cosh\left(\eta_{s}-y_{p}\right) f(x,p)×\displaystyle f(x,p)\times (2)
J(τ)τdτdηsrdrdφs,\displaystyle J(\tau)\tau d\tau d\eta_{s}rdrd\varphi_{s},

where MTM_{T} and ypy_{p} are the transverse mass and the rapidity of a single particle, rr and φs\varphi_{s} are the radius and azimuthal angle of coordinate space, τ\tau and ηs\eta_{s} are proper time and space pseudorapidity. J(τ)=1Δτ2πexp[(ττ0)22(Δτ)2]J(\tau)=\frac{1}{\Delta\tau\sqrt{2\pi}}\exp\left[-\frac{\left(\tau-\tau_{0}\right)^{2}}{2(\Delta\tau)^{2}}\right] is the Gaussian distribution of freeze-out proper time, where τ0\tau_{0} and Δτ\Delta\tau are the mean value and dispersion of this distribution. f(x,p)=2s+1(2π)3[exp(pμuμ/Tkin)±1]1f(x,p)=\frac{2s+1}{(2\pi)^{3}}\left[\exp\left(p^{\mu}u_{\mu}/T_{kin}\right)\pm 1\right]^{-1} is the Fermi or Bose distribution of a single particle boosted into the center-of-mass frame, where ss is the spin of the particle, uμu_{\mu} is the four-velocity of a fluid element in the fireball of the particle source and TkinT_{kin} is the freeze-out temperature. The Lorentz invariant can be expressed as,

pμuμ=MTcoshρ\displaystyle p^{\mu}u_{\mu}=M_{T}\cosh\rho_{\perp} cosh(ηsyp)\displaystyle\cosh(\eta_{s}-y_{p})- (3)
pTsinhρcos(φpφs),\displaystyle p_{T}\sinh\rho_{\perp}\cos\left(\varphi_{p}-\varphi_{s}\right),

where φp\varphi_{p} is the azimuthal angle in momentum space and ρ\rho_{\perp} is the transverse rapidity of fireball with a transverse radius R0R_{0}, defined as ρ=vρ0rR0\rho_{\perp}=v\rho_{0_{\perp}}\frac{r}{R_{0}}. If the parameters (τ0\tau_{0}, Δτ\Delta\tau, ρ0\rho_{0_{\perp}}, R0R_{0} and TkinT_{kin}) are fixed, the transverse momentum distribution is given as Zhang and Ma (2020):

dN2πpTdpTdyp=S(x,p)d4x.\frac{dN}{2\pi p_{T}dp_{T}dy_{p}}=\int S(x,p)d^{4}x. (4)

II.2 Solving three-body bound state

In order to obtain the Wigner function, bound state wave functions of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N need to be calculated. The non-relativistic Schrödinger equations of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N’s bound state can be written as,

H^ψ(𝒙1,𝒙2,𝒙3)=Ebψ(𝒙1,𝒙2,𝒙3),\hat{H}\psi(\bm{x}_{1},\bm{x}_{2},\bm{x}_{3})=E_{b}\psi(\bm{x}_{1},\bm{x}_{2},\bm{x}_{3}), (5)
H^=i=13i22Mi+j>iVij(𝒓ij),\begin{array}[]{c}\hat{H}=\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^{3}-\frac{\nabla_{i}^{2}}{2M_{i}}+\sum_{j>i}V_{ij}\left(\bm{r}_{ij}\right),\end{array} (6)

where ψ(𝒙1,𝒙2,𝒙3)=i=13ψi(𝒙i)\displaystyle\psi(\bm{x}_{1},\bm{x}_{2},\bm{x}_{3})=\sum_{i=1}^{3}\psi_{i}\left(\bm{x}_{i}\right) is total wave function of three-body system, ψi(𝒙i)\psi_{i}(\bm{x}_{i}) and 𝒙i\bm{x}_{i} are the wave function and coordinate of ii-th particle, respectively, 𝒓ij\bm{r}_{ij} is relative coordinate between ii-th and jj-th particle defined as 𝒓ij=𝒙i𝒙j\bm{r}_{ij}=\bm{x}_{i}-\bm{x}_{j}. The potentials between Ω\Omega-NN and Ω\Omega-Ω\Omega are the fit results from the HAL-QCD simulation Iritani et al. (2019); Gongyo et al. (2018), and the NN-NN potential is taken as the Malfliet-Tjon potential Malfliet and Tjon (1969):

VNN(r)=i=12Cieμirr,\displaystyle V_{NN}(r)=\sum_{i=1}^{2}C_{i}\frac{e^{-\mu_{i}r}}{r}, (7)
VNΩ(r)=b1eb2r2+b3(1eb4r2)(eMπrr)2,\displaystyle V_{N\Omega}(r)=b_{1}e^{-b_{2}r^{2}}+b_{3}\left(1-e^{-b_{4}r^{2}}\right)\left(\frac{e^{-M_{\pi}r}}{r}\right)^{2},
VΩΩ(r)=i=13Cie(r/di)2,\displaystyle V_{\Omega\Omega}(r)=\sum_{i=1}^{3}C_{i}e^{-\left(r/d_{i}\right)^{2}},

where MπM_{\pi} is taken as 146146 MeV (near the physical mass 140140 MeV). The parameters are listed in Table 2.

Table 2: Parameters of potentials VNN(r)V_{NN}(r) Malfliet and Tjon (1969), VNΩ(r)V_{N\Omega}(r), VΩΩ(r)V_{\Omega\Omega}(r) Iritani et al. (2019); Gongyo et al. (2018)
VNN(r)V_{NN}(r) C1C_{1} (MeV) C2C_{2} (MeV) μ1\mu_{1} (fm1fm^{-1}) μ2\mu_{2} (fm1fm^{-1})
S13{}^{3}S_{1} -636.36 1460.47 1.55 3.11
S01{}^{1}S_{0} -521.74 1460.47 1.55 3.11
VNΩ(r)V_{N\Omega}(r) b1b_{1} (MeV) b2b_{2} (fm2fm^{-2}) b3b_{3} (MeVfm2\cdot fm^{2}) b4b_{4} (fm2fm^{-2})
S25{}^{5}S_{2} -313.0 (5.3) 81.7 (5.4) -252.0 (27.) 0.85 (10)
VΩΩ(r)V_{\Omega\Omega}(r) C1C_{1} (MeV) C2C_{2} (MeV) C3C_{3} (MeV)
S01{}^{1}S_{0} 914.0 (52) 305.0 (44) -112.0 (13)
d1(fm)d_{1}\ (fm) d2(fm)d_{2}\ (fm) d3(fm)d_{3}\ (fm)
0.143 (5) 0.305 (29) 0.949 (58)

There are many methods to solve this kind of three-body equations, such as the Faddeev equation Faddeev (1961); Thompson et al. (2004); Kovalchuk (2014) and the variation method. One kind of the variation methods is mainly based on the hyperspherical-harmonics (HH) method Kievsky et al. (1993, 1994); Kievsky (1997); Kievsky et al. (1997), in which the coordinates are transformed into center-of-mass frame by using the Jacobi transform,

(𝑹𝒓1𝒓2)=J(𝒙1𝒙2𝒙3,)(𝑷𝒒1𝒒2)=(J1)T(𝒑1𝒑2𝒑3,)\begin{array}[]{c}\left(\begin{array}[]{c}\bm{R}\\ \bm{r}_{1}\\ \bm{r}_{2}\end{array}\right)=J\cdot\left(\begin{array}[]{c}\bm{x}_{1}\\ \bm{x}_{2}\\ \bm{x}_{3},\end{array}\right)\\ \left(\begin{array}[]{l}\bm{P}\\ \bm{q}_{1}\\ \bm{q}_{2}\end{array}\right)=\left(J^{-1}\right)^{T}\cdot\left(\begin{array}[]{l}\bm{p}_{1}\\ \bm{p}_{2}\\ \bm{p}_{3},\end{array}\right)\end{array} (8)

where JJ is the Jacobi matrix, it reads

J=(M1MtotM2MtotM3Mtot0M2M3M23QM2M3M23QM1M23MtotQM22M1MtotM23QM32M1MtotM23Q),J=\begin{pmatrix}\frac{M_{1}}{M_{tot}}&\frac{M_{2}}{M_{tot}}&\frac{M_{3}}{M_{tot}}\\[5.0pt] 0&-\sqrt{\frac{M_{2}M_{3}}{M_{23}Q}}&\sqrt{\frac{M_{2}M_{3}}{M_{23}Q}}\\[5.0pt] -\sqrt{\frac{M_{1}M_{23}}{M_{tot}Q}}&\sqrt{\frac{M_{2}^{2}M_{1}}{M_{tot}M_{23}Q}}&\sqrt{\frac{M_{3}^{2}M_{1}}{M_{tot}M_{23}Q}}\end{pmatrix}, (9)

where MiM_{i} is the mass of iith particle, Mtot=M1+M2+M3M_{tot}=M_{1}+M_{2}+M_{3} is the total mass, M23=M2+M3M_{23}=M_{2}+M_{3} is the total mass of particles 2 and 3, Q=(M1M2M3)/MtotQ=\sqrt{(M_{1}M_{2}M_{3})/M_{tot}} is the reduced mass which normalizes the Jacobi matrix. For simplicity, the indexes of particles are chosen as symmetric as possible. In this article, the particles 2 and 3 prefer to be identical and particle 1 is different for a three-body nucleus. Sequentially the three-body Schrödinger equation separates into the center of mass motion (no effect on binding energy and relative wave function) and the relative motion Chattopadhyay et al. (1996); Khan (2012),

T^ψ(r)+j>iVij(𝒓ij)ψ(r)=Ebψ(r),\widehat{T}\psi(\vec{r})+\sum_{j>i}V_{ij}\left(\bm{r}_{ij}\right)\psi(\vec{r})=E_{b}\psi(\vec{r}), (10)

where r=(𝒓1,𝒓2)=(ρ,α,θ1,ϕ1,θ2,ϕ2)\vec{r}=\left(\bm{r}_{1},\bm{r}_{2}\right)=\left(\rho,\alpha,\theta_{1},\phi_{1},\theta_{2},\phi_{2}\right) is defined in a six-dimensional hypersphere coordinate, ρ=r12+r22\rho=\sqrt{r_{1}^{2}+r_{2}^{2}} is the hyperradius, α=arctan(r2/r1)\alpha=\arctan\left(r_{2}/r_{1}\right) is the hyperpolar angle which ranges from 0 to π/2\pi/2 Chattopadhyay et al. (1996); Khan (2012); He et al. (2015), θi,ϕi\theta_{i},\phi_{i} are the azimuth angles of 𝒓i\bm{r}_{i}, and the volume element is d6r=ρ5sin2αcos2αsinθ1sinθ2dρdαdθ1dϕ1dθ2dϕ2d^{6}\vec{r}=\rho^{5}\sin^{2}{\alpha}\cos^{2}{\alpha}\sin{\theta_{1}}\sin{\theta_{2}}d\rho d\alpha d\theta_{1}d\phi_{1}d\theta_{2}d\phi_{2}. The momentum and angular momentum operators are defined as Kievsky et al. (1993, 1994); Chattopadhyay et al. (1996); Khan (2012); He et al. (2015),

T^=12Q(2ρ25ρρ+L^2ρ2),\hat{T}=\frac{1}{2Q}\left(-\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial\rho^{2}}-\frac{5}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial\rho}+\frac{\hat{L}^{2}}{\rho^{2}}\right), (11)

where

L^2=2α24cot2αα+l^12cos2α+l^22sin2α.\hat{L}^{2}=-\frac{\partial^{2}}{\partial\alpha^{2}}-4\cot 2\alpha\frac{\partial}{\partial\alpha}+\frac{\hat{l}_{1}^{2}}{\cos^{2}\alpha}+\frac{\hat{l}_{2}^{2}}{\sin^{2}\alpha}. (12)

The eigen function of L^2\hat{L}^{2} is a hyperspherical harmonic function Kievsky et al. (1993, 1994); Kievsky (1997); Kievsky et al. (1997):

𝒴K,κ(α,θ1,ϕ1,θ2,ϕ2)=Nkl1l2cos(α)l1sin(α)l2Pkl2+1/2,l1+1/2(cos(2α))×{{Yl1(θ1,ϕ1)Yl2(θ2,ϕ2)}L{sisjk}Sa}JJz{titjk}TTz,\displaystyle\begin{aligned} \mathcal{Y}_{K,\kappa}(\alpha,\theta_{1},\phi_{1},\theta_{2},\phi_{2})=N_{kl_{1}l_{2}}\cos(\alpha)^{l_{1}}\sin(\alpha)^{l_{2}}P_{k}^{l_{2}+1/2,\ l_{1}+1/2}(\cos(2\alpha))\times\\ \left\{\left\{Y_{l_{1}}\left(\theta_{1},\phi_{1}\right)Y_{l_{2}}\left(\theta_{2},\phi_{2}\right)\right\}_{L}\left\{s_{i}s_{jk}\right\}_{S_{a}}\right\}_{JJ_{z}}\left\{t_{i}t_{jk}\right\}_{TT_{z}},\end{aligned} (13)

and

L^2𝒴K,κ=(K+4)K𝒴K,κ,\displaystyle\hat{L}^{2}\mathcal{Y}_{K,\kappa}=(K+4)K\ \mathcal{Y}_{K,\kappa}, (14)

where K=2k+l1+l2K=2k+l_{1}+l_{2} is the total hyperangular momentum number, qq is a nonnegative integer, lil_{i} and mim_{i} is the orbital angular momentum number of 𝒓i\bm{r}_{i} direction, κ\kappa represents the LL-spin-isospin state defined as κ={JJz(L(l1l2)Sa(sisjk))TTz(titjk)}\kappa=\{JJ_{z}(L(l_{1}l_{2})S_{a}(s_{i}s_{jk}))TT_{z}(t_{i}t_{jk})\}, Nkl1l2N_{kl_{1}l_{2}} is a normalization factor Kovalchuk (2014),

Nkl1l2=2k!(K+2)(k+l1+l2+1)!Γ(k+l1+3/2)Γ(k+l2+3/2))N_{kl_{1}l_{2}}=\sqrt{\frac{2\ k!\ (K+2)\ (k+l_{1}+l_{2}+1)!}{\Gamma(k+l_{1}+3/2)\ \Gamma(k+l_{2}+3/2))}} (15)

and Pka,b(x)P_{k}^{a,b}(x) is the Jacobi polynomial and Yml(θ,ϕ)Y_{m}^{l}(\theta,\phi) is the Spherical Harmonic function. The orthogonal basis radial function can be chosen as

un[λ](ρ)=(2λn)3(n2)!2n(n+1)!eλρ/n(2λρn)Ln23(2λρn)ρ52(n2),u_{n}^{[\lambda]}(\rho)=\sqrt{\left(\frac{2\lambda}{n}\right)^{3}\frac{(n-2)!}{2n\ (n+1)!}}e^{-\lambda\rho/n}\left(\frac{2\lambda\rho}{n}\right)L_{n-2}^{3}\left(\frac{2\lambda\rho}{n}\right)\rho^{-\frac{5}{2}}\ (n\geq 2), (16)

in which λ\lambda is a variation parameter, nn is the radial basis index, Lab(ρ)L_{a}^{b}(\rho) is the associated Laguerre polynomial. Then the orthogonal basis function can be constructed as,

r|n,K,κ=un[λ](ρ)𝒴K,κ(α,θ1,ϕ1,θ2,ϕ2).\left\langle\vec{r}\ |n,K,\kappa\right\rangle=u_{n}^{[\lambda]}(\rho)\mathcal{Y}_{K,\kappa}(\alpha,\theta_{1},\phi_{1},\theta_{2},\phi_{2}). (17)

Then the relative motion Hamiltonian H^\hat{H} can be expanded into matrix form n,K,κ|H^|n,K,κ\left\langle n,K,\kappa\left|\hat{H}\right|n^{\prime},K^{\prime},\kappa^{\prime}\right\rangle. The following assumptions are taken to reduce the dimensions of the matrix: 1) assume that the nucleus is spherical by setting the total LL = 0, corresponding to the ground state; 2) the (I)JP(I)J^{P} is fixed as the same as Garcilazo and Valcarce used Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019); 3) if particle 2 and 3 are identical, the parity between them must be odd Kievsky et al. (1993); 4) l1l_{1}, l26l_{2}\leq 6 is enough for required precision Kievsky (1997), and the number nn ranges from 2 to 11 and kk up to 45. The matrix elements have been calculated numerically by a Laguerre-Gauss quadrature for the integrals in the hyperradius ρ\rho and a Legendre-Gauss quadrature for the hyperangle α\alpha  Abramowitz and Stegun .

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Figure 1: Diagrams of three coordinate frames. From left to right, the coordinate is numbered as I, II and III, respectively, where c1i=MjkQMjMkc^{i}_{1}=\sqrt{\frac{M_{jk}Q}{M_{j}M_{k}}} and c2i=MtotQMiMjkc^{i}_{2}=-\sqrt{\frac{M_{tot}Q}{M_{i}M_{jk}}} (i,j,k=I(1),II(2),III(3)i,j,k=I(1),II(2),III(3) and ϵijk=1.\epsilon_{ijk}=1.)

But the elements of Hamiltonian matrix need six dimensional integral and the complex expressions of 𝒓12\bm{r}_{12} and 𝒓31\bm{r}_{31} for the hypersphere coordinate are based on the transforms of (8) and (9), where 𝒓2=M2M3(M2+M3)Q𝒓23\bm{r}_{2}=-\sqrt{\frac{M_{2}M_{3}}{\left(M_{2}+M_{3}\right)Q}}\ \bm{r}_{23}. In order to simplify the calculation, Raynal and Revai Raynal and Revai (1970) put forward the RR coefficient which is similar to Clebsch-Gordan coefficient. For example as shown in Fig. 1, it is convenient to calculate V23(𝒓23)V_{23}(\bm{r}_{23}) when the hypersphere is based on 𝒓1I\bm{r}_{1}^{I} and 𝒓2I\bm{r}_{2}^{I} in Coordinate I but hard to calculate V12(𝒓12)V_{12}(\bm{r}_{12}) and V31(𝒓31)V_{31}(\bm{r}_{31}) for the complex expressions of 𝒓12\bm{r}_{12} and 𝒓31\bm{r}_{31}. By using RR coefficient, the hyperspherical harmonic function |I;n,K,κ\left|I;n,K,\kappa\right\rangle, defined in the coordinate I, can be expanded by |II(III);n,K,κ\left|II(III);n,K,\kappa^{\prime}\right\rangle in coordinate II (III),

|I;n,K,κ=κkl1Il2I|l1jl2jK,Ls1s23;S|s1js23j;St1t23;T|t1jt23j;T|j;n,K,κj,\left|I;n,K,\kappa\right\rangle=\sum_{\kappa_{k}}\left\langle l^{I}_{1}l^{I}_{2}|l^{j}_{1}l^{j}_{2}\right\rangle_{K,L}\left\langle s_{1}s_{23};S|s_{1_{j}}s_{23_{j}};S\right\rangle\left\langle t_{1}t_{23};T|t_{1_{j}}t_{23_{j}};T\right\rangle\left|j;n,K,\kappa_{j}\right\rangle, (18)

where l1Il2I|l1jl2jK,L\left\langle l^{I}_{1}l^{I}_{2}|l^{j}_{1}l^{j}_{2}\right\rangle_{K,L} is the RR coefficient which requires that KK and LL are same in transformation, s1s23;S|s1js23j;S\left\langle s_{1}s_{23};S|s_{1_{j}}s_{23_{j}};S\right\rangle and t1t23;T|t1jt23j;T\left\langle t_{1}t_{23};T|t_{1_{j}}t_{23_{j}};T\right\rangle are Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, jj represents the coordinate II or III, 1j1_{j} and 23j23_{j} represent the particle 2 (3) and the pair of particle 3 (1) and 1 (2) when j=II(III)j=II(III). It is clear that the definition of ρ\rho is same in all coordinates, so the index nn does not need to change in the transform (18). After the transformation, 𝒓23j\bm{r}_{23_{j}} only relates to the ρ\rho and αj\alpha_{j}, which means the six dimensional integral is simplified into a double integral and a sum of κj\kappa_{j}.

After the calculation of Hamiltonian matrix, it is natural to calculate the minimum eigenvalue of the matrix as the binding energy B[λ]B[\lambda] of the three-body system and the corresponding eigenvector is the list of coefficients for the basis functions. And the binding energy B[λ]B[\lambda] requires δB[λ]/δλ=0\delta B[\lambda]/\delta\lambda=0, which means that the binding energy is also the minimum point of variation parameter λ\lambda.

Garcilazo and Valcarce Garcilazo and Valcarce (2016) solved three-body amplitudes by the Faddeev equations Faddeev (1961) with considering the spin and isospin freedom. They assumed that three particles were in SS-wave by which the spin-isospin state was constructed and two-body amplitudes with the Legendre polynomials were expanded to solve the Faddeev equations.

Table 3 shows the calculated binding energy of H3{}^{3}H, HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H and Ωpn\Omega pn and the comparison with other theoretical results as well as experimental results. The potential between NN and Λ\Lambda used in HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H binding energy calculation is YNG-ND interactions Yamamoto et al. (1994); Hiyama et al. (1997) with kF=0.84fm1k_{F}=0.84fm^{-1}Hiyama et al. (2002). It can be seen that this calculation of Ωpn\Omega pn is consistent with the results from Garcilazo and Valcarce’s results  Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019). The error of pnΩpn\Omega binding energy is estimated from the fitting errors of the NΩN-\Omega potential. The results of H3{}^{3}H and HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H are close to experimental results Davis (1986); Adam et al. (2020) and theoretical calculations as well Egorov and Postnikov (2021). Like HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H consisting of spin 32\frac{3}{2} and 12\frac{1}{2}, one is the ground state (spin 12\frac{1}{2}) and one is thought as a virtual state (spin 32\frac{3}{2}) near the Λd\Lambda d threshold Schäfer et al. (2022), Ωpn\Omega pn can also be mix of spin 52\frac{5}{2}, 32\frac{3}{2} and 12\frac{1}{2}. According to the HAL QCD’s calculation Gongyo et al. (2018), the S13{}^{3}S_{1} ΩN\Omega N interaction is too weak to form a bound ΩN\Omega N with spin 1. So the ratio of lower spin in Ωpn\Omega pn is small. In this paper Ωpn\Omega pn is considered as spin 52\frac{5}{2}.

Table 3: The binding energies of H3{}^{3}H, HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H and Ωpn\Omega pn calculated by a variation method. Results of this work are consistent with other’s work and experimental results. The unit is in MeV
Nuclei This work Reference Experiment Result
H3{}^{3}H 8.69 8.4 Malfliet and Tjon (1969) 8.481 (Exp.)
HΛ3{}_{\Lambda}^{3}H 2.68 2.37 Egorov and Postnikov (2021) 2.352.35 (Emulsion) Davis (1986)
2.632.63 (STAR) Adam et al. (2020)
2.362.36 (ALICE) Acharya et al. (2019)
Ωpn\Omega pn 22.0(2.2)22.0~{}(2.2) 21.3 Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019) /

There is another method for few-body system interaction by which the system is not deeply bound, called as the folding model Watanabe (1958); Etminan and Firoozabadi (2019). The folding model assumes that nucleus is bound as a molecular state like dibaryon-baryon state. For the S13ΩN{}^{3}S_{1}\ \Omega N interaction, it is not as strong as S25ΩN{}^{5}S_{2}\ \Omega N, the folding model can be applied in Ωnn\Omega nn, Ωpp\Omega pp, ΩΩn\Omega\Omega n and ΩΩp\Omega\Omega p, which softens the S25ΩN{}^{5}S_{2}\ \Omega N interaction. The model uses the free dibaryon wave function to average the potential between dibaryon and baryon,

UF(𝐑F)=d3𝐫dψd(𝐫d)ψd(𝐫d)×\displaystyle U_{F}(\mathbf{R}_{F})=\int d^{3}\mathbf{r}_{d}\ \psi_{d}^{*}\left(\mathbf{r}_{d}\right)\psi_{d}\left(\mathbf{r}_{d}\right)\times (19)
[V12(𝐑FM3𝐫dM2+M3)+V13(𝐑F+M2𝐫dM2+M3)],\displaystyle\left[V_{12}\left(\mathbf{R}_{F}-\frac{M_{3}\ \mathbf{r}_{d}}{M_{2}+M_{3}}\right)+V_{13}\left(\mathbf{R}_{F}+\frac{M_{2}\ \mathbf{r}_{d}}{M_{2}+M_{3}}\right)\right],

where ψd\psi_{d} is the dibaryon wave function which is consisted of particle 2 and 3, UF(𝐑F)U_{F}(\mathbf{R}_{F}) is average potential and the 𝐑F\mathbf{R}_{F} is relative coordinate between the dibaryon and baryon. This method also simplifies the three-body bound state into two two-body bound states (dibaryon and dibaryon-baryon). The total wave function is Ψ(𝐑F,𝐫d)=ψd(𝐫)ψmole(𝐑F)\Psi(\mathbf{R}_{F},\mathbf{r}_{d})=\psi_{d}(\mathbf{r})\ \psi_{mole}(\mathbf{R}_{F}) and total binding energy is E=Ed+EmoleE=E_{d}+E_{mole}, where ψmole(𝑹F)\psi_{mole}(\bm{R}_{F}) is the molecular state wave function calculated with the average potential UF(𝑹F)U_{F}(\bm{R}_{F}) and EmoleE_{mole} is the binding energy of molecular state. The binding energies of Ωnn\Omega nn, Ωpp\Omega pp, ΩΩn\Omega\Omega n and ΩΩp\Omega\Omega p are calculated by the folding model and their errors are estimated from the fitting error of NΩN-\Omega and ΩΩ\Omega-\Omega potential. The results are listed in Table 4. It can be found that different combinations of dibaryon in three-body systems result in different binding energies which are corresponding to different decay channels and will be discussed later.

Table 4: Comparison of binding energies between folding model calculation (this work) and the work of Garcilazo and Valcarce (Ref. Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019)). It seems that ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N whose spin is smaller than 5/2 is weakly bound to the third baryon
Nuclei dibaryon-baryon this work reference Garcilazo and Valcarce (2019)
Ωnn\Omega nn Ωn+n\Omega n+n 2.81(1.26)2.81~{}(1.26) 2.35
Ωpp\Omega pp Ωp+p\Omega p+p 4.02(1.26)4.02~{}(1.26) 3.04
ΩΩn\Omega\Omega n Ωn+Ω\Omega n+\Omega 6.77(3.17)6.77~{}(3.17) 5.1
ΩΩ+n\Omega\Omega+n 4.83(3.13)4.83~{}(3.13)
ΩΩp\Omega\Omega p Ωp+Ω\Omega p+\Omega 10.2(3.2)10.2~{}(3.2) 6.5
ΩΩ+p\Omega\Omega+p 6.22(3.32)6.22~{}(3.32)

II.3 Wigner function

The Wigner function introduced in Eq. (1) is written as Chen et al. (2003); Zhang et al. (2010); Sun and Chen (2017),

ρW(r,q)=ψ(r+R2)\displaystyle\rho^{W}(\vec{r},\vec{q})=\int\psi\left(\vec{r}+\frac{\vec{R}}{2}\right) ψ(rR2)×\displaystyle\psi^{*}\left(\vec{r}-\frac{\vec{R}}{2}\right)\times (20)
exp(iqR)d6R,\displaystyle\exp(-i\vec{q}\cdot\vec{R})d^{6}\vec{R},

where r=(𝒓1,𝒓2)\vec{r}=(\bm{r}_{1},\bm{r}_{2}), q=(𝒒1,𝒒2)\vec{q}=(\bm{q}_{1},\bm{q}_{2}) are the relative coordinate and momentum, and ψ(x)\psi(\vec{x}) is the relative wave function. For the three-body system it is expressed in six dimensions, the Wigner function will be 12 dimensions, which is impossible to draw a picture and hardly calculated. After performing the calculation of eigenvector of Hamiltonian matrix, the major contribution of total wave function comes from a few bases which contribute more than 94%94\% to total amplitude for the parameters of them are large (larger than 0.08). With considering the fitting errors of potential, the total relative errors of such simplified wave functions are about 10%10\%, So this kind of simplification retains most information of origin wave function. If the selected bases are only radial related, the total wave function can be simplified as the sum of these bases with weights of their parameters. And then the simplified wave function is only radial related. The Wigner function can be simplified as,

ρ3W(r,q,θ)=\displaystyle\rho_{3}^{W}(r,q,\theta)= ψ(r2+R24+rRcosθ1)×\displaystyle\int\psi\left(\sqrt{r^{2}+\frac{R^{2}}{4}+rR\cos\theta_{1}}\right)\times (21)
ψ(r2+R24rRcosθ1)×\displaystyle\ \ \ \ \ \psi^{*}\left(\sqrt{r^{2}+\frac{R^{2}}{4}-rR\cos\theta_{1}}\right)\times
exp(iqRcosθcosθ1)×\displaystyle\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \exp\left(-iqR\cos\theta\cos\theta_{1}\right)\times
exp(iqRsinθsinθ1cosθ2)×\displaystyle\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \exp\left(-iqR\sin\theta\sin\theta_{1}\cos\theta_{2}\right)\times
2π2R5sin4θ1sin3θ2dRdθ1dθ2.\displaystyle\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 2\pi^{2}R^{5}\sin^{4}\theta_{1}\sin^{3}\theta_{2}dRd\theta_{1}d\theta_{2}.

A Laguerre-Gauss quadrature is applied for the integrals of hyperradius RR and θ1,θ2\theta_{1},\ \theta_{2} is integrated by a Legendre-Gauss quadrature Abramowitz and Stegun . The coordinate is defined in a six-dimensional spherical coordinate as R=(R,θ1,θ2,θ3,θ4,θ5)\vec{R}=\left(R,\theta_{1},\theta_{2},\theta_{3},\theta_{4},\theta_{5}\right), which can be transformed into the six-dimensional Cartesian coordinate:

R=\displaystyle\vec{R}= (𝑹1,𝑹2)=(R1x,R1y,R1z,R2x,R2y,R2z)=\displaystyle(\bm{R}_{1},\bm{R}_{2})=(R_{1x},R_{1y},R_{1z},R_{2x},R_{2y},R_{2z})= (22)
(Rcosθ1,Rsinθ1cosθ2,Rsinθ1sinθ2cosθ3,\displaystyle\ (R\cos{\theta_{1}},R\sin{\theta_{1}}\cos{\theta_{2}},R\sin{\theta_{1}}\sin{\theta_{2}}\cos{\theta_{3}},
Rsinθ1sinθ2sinθ3cosθ4,\displaystyle\ \ R\sin{\theta_{1}}\sin{\theta_{2}}\sin{\theta_{3}}\cos{\theta_{4}},
Rsinθ1sinθ2sinθ3sinθ4cosθ5,\displaystyle\ \ R\sin{\theta_{1}}\sin{\theta_{2}}\sin{\theta_{3}}\sin{\theta_{4}}\cos{\theta_{5}},
Rsinθ1sinθ2sinθ3sinθ4sinθ5),\displaystyle\ \ R\sin{\theta_{1}}\sin{\theta_{2}}\sin{\theta_{3}}\sin{\theta_{4}}\sin{\theta_{5}}),

and 0θiπ0\leq\theta_{i}\leq\pi (i=1,2,3,4i=1,2,3,4), 0θ52π0\leq\theta_{5}\leq 2\pi, the volume element is d6R=R5dRi=15sin5iθidθid^{6}\vec{R}=R^{5}dR\prod_{i=1}^{5}\sin^{5-i}{\theta_{i}}d\theta_{i}. The r\vec{r} in Eq. (21) is set at (r,0,0,0,0,0)\left(r,0,0,0,0,0\right), the q\vec{q} is set at (q,θ,0,0,0,0)(q,\theta,0,0,0,0). By integrating out the angle, the probability to find the pnΩpn\Omega ground bound state can be obtained at six-dimensional hyperspherical radius rr and at six-dimensional hyperspherical momentum qq He et al. (2015),

P(r,q)=124πr5q50πρ3W(r,q,θ)sin4θdθ,P(r,q)=\frac{1}{24\pi}r^{5}q^{5}\int_{0}^{\pi}\rho_{3}^{W}(r,q,\theta)\sin^{4}\theta d\theta, (23)

which is shown in Fig. 2. The Wigner probability is similar to a Gaussian distribution with tails in both coordinate and momentum space. The most probable position in the coordinate-momentum phase space is located at (r,q)(2 fm,200 MeV)(r,q)\sim(2\text{ fm},200\text{ MeV}). And the normalization of the probability,

0P(r,q)𝑑r𝑑q=1.\int^{\infty}_{0}P(r,q)drdq=1. (24)
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Figure 2: Wigner probability P(r,q)P(r,q) of pnΩpn\Omega, which represents the probability to find the pnΩpn\Omega ground bound state at binding energy 21.7 MeV at six-dimensional hyperspherical radius rr and at six-dimensional hyperspherical momentum qq

If the wave function relates to not only ρ\rho but also α\alpha, in other word, the wave function relates to both r1r_{1} and r2r_{2} which are defined in Fig. 1. Wigner transformation is more complex. ψ(ρ,α)=ρα|ψ\psi(\rho,\alpha)=\left.\left\langle\rho\alpha\right|\psi\right\rangle can be simplified into n1,n2r1r2|n1n2n1n2|ψ\sum_{n_{1},n_{2}}\left.\left\langle r_{1}r_{2}\right|n_{1}n_{2}\right\rangle\left\langle n_{1}n_{2}\left|\psi\right\rangle\right.. ri|ni\left\langle r_{i}\left|n_{i}\right\rangle\right. is a 3-dimension radial orthogonal basis which is the same as (16) but the last term is ri1/2r_{i}^{-1/2} with the same variation parameter λ\lambda for different nin_{i}. Here nin_{i} ranges from 2 to 26 with λ=10000\lambda=10000. By this way, Wigner transformation can be rewritten as:

ρW(r,q)\displaystyle\rho^{W}(\vec{r},\vec{q}) =d6Rψ|rR2r+R2|ψeiqR\displaystyle=\int d^{6}\vec{R}\left\langle\psi\left|\vec{r}-\frac{\vec{R}}{2}\right\rangle\right.\left.\left\langle\vec{r}+\frac{\vec{R}}{2}\right|\psi\right\rangle e^{-i\vec{q}\cdot\vec{R}} (25)
=n1,n2,n1,n2ψ|n1n2n1n2|ψ×\displaystyle=\sum_{n_{1},n_{2},n^{\prime}_{1},n^{\prime}_{2}}\left.\left\langle\psi\right|n_{1}n_{2}\right\rangle\left\langle n^{\prime}_{1}n^{\prime}_{2}\left|\psi\right\rangle\right.\times
i=1,2d3𝐑𝐢ni|𝐫i𝐑i2𝐫i+𝐑i2|niei𝐪i𝐑i.\displaystyle\prod_{i=1,2}\int d^{3}\mathbf{R_{i}}\left\langle n_{i}\left|\mathbf{r}_{i}-\frac{\mathbf{R}_{i}}{2}\right\rangle\right.\left.\left\langle\mathbf{r}_{i}+\frac{\mathbf{R}_{i}}{2}\right|n^{\prime}_{i}\right\rangle e^{-i\mathbf{q}_{i}\cdot\mathbf{R}_{i}}.

A complex Wigner transformation is simplified by a series of three-dimension Wigner transform.

For the folding model, ρ3W=ρdiW×ρdibW\rho_{3}^{W}=\rho_{di}^{W}\times\rho_{di-b}^{W}, where ρdiW\rho_{di}^{W} is the Wigner density function for dibaryon and ρdibW\rho_{di-b}^{W} is the Wigner density function for the pair of dibaryon and third baryon. Both of these two Wigner density functions can be calculated as did in our previous work Zhang and Ma (2020) for two-body systems.

The main errors of Wigner function are from the errors of wave functions. From the relationship between Wigner function and the wave function, the errors of Wigner function are estimated to be about 20%20\%.

III Result and discussion

Table 5: The blast-wave model parameters for proton (Ω\Omega) in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV Sun and Chen (2015), which is fitted from the RHIC data Adler et al. (2004); Abelev et al. (2009) as well as in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV Zhang and Ma (2020) fitted from the ALICE data Abelev et al. (2013); Adam et al. (2016a); Abelev et al. (2014)
T (MeV) ρ0\rho_{0} R0R_{0} (fm) τ0\tau_{0} (fm/c/c) Δτ\Delta\tau (fm/c/c)
200 GeV 111.6 0.98 (0.9) 15.6 10.55 3.5
2.76 TeV 122 1.2 (1.07) 19.7 15.5 1

In blast-wave model, the parameters (τ0\tau_{0}, Δτ\Delta\tau, ρ0\rho_{0_{\perp}}, R0R_{0} and TkinT_{kin}) are fitted with experimental transverse momentum spectra of proton and Ω\Omega by Eq. (4) and adjusted with the results of triton for different collisions, as shown in Fig. 3. Table 5 listed the parameters used in this work.

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Figure 3: Transverse momentum pTp_{T} spectra of p,Ω,Λ3H, and Ωpnp,\ \Omega,\ ^{3}_{\Lambda}H,\ \text{ and }\Omega pn in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV (a) and Pb + Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV (b). The open markers for pp, Λ\Lambda and Ω\Omega directly fit to the experiments, and the open makers for triton, hypertriton and Ωpn\Omega pn are the results of BLWC model. Full makers are the data from the RHIC Adler et al. (2004); Adam et al. (2007); Zhang (2021) and ALICE Abelev et al. (2013, 2014); Adam et al. (2016a, b)
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Figure 4: Transverse momentum pTp_{T} spectra of proton calculated by the folding model, the open makers for Ωnn,Ωpp,ΩΩn and ΩΩp\Omega nn,\ \Omega pp,\ \Omega\Omega n\text{ and }\Omega\Omega p are the results of the BLWC model and the folding model. The full makers are the data from the RHIC Adler et al. (2004); Adam et al. (2007); Zhang (2021) and ALICE Abelev et al. (2013, 2014); Adam et al. (2016a). The lines are calculated by our previous work Zhang and Ma (2020)

The transverse momentum spectra of Ωpn\Omega pn is calculated by using the blast-wave model coupled with coalescence model (BLWC) as Eq. (1) and shown in Fig. 3 (a) for Au+Au collisions at sNN=200\displaystyle\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV and Fig. 3 (b) for Pb + Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\displaystyle\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76 TeV. The results of Ωnn,Ωpp,ΩΩn and ΩΩp\Omega nn,\ \Omega pp,\ \Omega\Omega n\text{ and }\Omega\Omega p with the relative wave function from the folding model are shown in Fig. 4. The pTp_{T} spectra of pΩp\Omega and ΩΩ\Omega\Omega from our previous work Zhang and Ma (2020) as well as this work are also presented in Fig. 4. The pTp_{T} spectra of nΩn\Omega is not shown here because it is almost as same as pΩp\Omega.

To further investigate the productions of Ω\Omega-dibaryons and hypernuclei, the pTp_{T} integrated yields dN/dydN/dy at midrapidity are given in Table 6 and  7. The predicted results show NΩN\Omega ×104\sim\times 10^{-4} Zhang and Ma (2020), ΩΩ\Omega\Omega ×107\sim\times 10^{-7}, ΩNN\Omega NN ×107\sim\times 10^{-7} and NΩΩN\Omega\Omega ×109\sim\times 10^{-9}. The uncertainties of the integrated yields are directly from the Wigner functions, whose relative errors are about 20%20\%. So the relative errors of yields are considered as 20%20\%. Though the uncertainties from the blast-wave parameters are also important, which have been discussed by other model work Zhang et al. (2014), it will not be discussed in this paper. And while, the corresponding values in Pb + Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV are larger than those in Au + Au collisions at 200 GeV. With the growing of constituents number AA such as ΩNΩNNΩ\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow NN\Omega and NNΩΩΩNN\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow\Omega\Omega N, the production rates appear to follow the exponential function exp(bA)\exp(-bA), here bb is the so-called reduction factor Shah et al. (2016); Xue et al. (2012); Agakishiev et al. (2011), as shown in Fig. 5 for Pb + Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. This AA-dependent trend is similar to that for light nuclei of pdt(Λ3H)p\rightarrow d\rightarrow t~{}(^{3}_{\Lambda}H) in Fig. 5. However, it can be seen that nΩn\Omega-nn (pΩp\Omega-pp) slightly deviate from the trend in ΩNΩNNΩ\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow NN\Omega. Keep in mind that the treatment of interaction is slightly different between pnΩpn\Omega and dibaryon-baryon via the folding method, which results in the slight deviation. In general, we have two classes for these production chains. One is for Ndt(Λ3H)N\rightarrow d\rightarrow t~{}(^{3}_{\Lambda}H), ΩNΩNNΩ\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow NN\Omega and ΩΩNΩΩ\Omega\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\Omega (solid lines), they are almost parallel with the increase of NN constituent number. Another is for NNΩNΩΩN\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\Omega, ΩΩΩ\Omega\rightarrow\Omega\Omega and dNNΩd\rightarrow NN\Omega chains (dash lines), they are almost parallel with the increase of Ω\Omega number. Obviously much larger reduction factor bb for the second class than the first class, indicating that much less yield for adding one more Ω\Omega than one more nucleon. The different reduction factor bb results from the different interactions between NΩN-\Omega and ΩΩ\Omega-\Omega as well as the difference of productions of NN and Ω\Omega. Inspired by this, the production of hypernuclei NnHmN_{n}H_{m} (NN for nucleons and HH for one kind of hyperons) can be estimated by the intersection of NiHmN_{i}H_{m} and NnHjN_{n}H_{j} chains (i(j)i(j) is smaller than n(m)n(m)). Even if there is one point on the chain of NnHjN_{n}H_{j}, the reduction factor bb of this chain is similar to the chain of HjH_{j} or other chains whose bb is known in the same class with NnHjN_{n}H_{j}. From figure 5, the prediction of the NNΩΩNN\Omega\Omega production is about 101010^{-10}. It implies that the production of hypernuclei is sensitive to the interaction among the constituents in the coalescence framework and then the systematic measurement of hypernuclei can shed light on the production mechanism and the baryon interaction.

Table 6: dN/dydN/dy for Ω\Omega-dibaryons and hypernuclei at midrapidity. The values of dN/dydN/dy for Ω\Omega-dibaryons are taken from Ref. Zhang and Ma (2020)
nΩn\Omega pΩp\Omega ΩΩ\Omega\Omega Ωpn\Omega pn
200 GeV 7.51×1047.51\times 10^{-4} 7.39×1047.39\times 10^{-4} 3.1×1073.1\times 10^{-7} 3.56×1063.56\times 10^{-6}
2.76 TeV 1.31×1031.31\times 10^{-3} 1.27×1031.27\times 10^{-3} 7.9×1077.9\times 10^{-7} 7.36×1067.36\times 10^{-6}
Table 7: dN/dydN/dy for Ω\Omega-dibaryon and hypernuclei at midrapidity calculated by the folding model. The values of dN/dydN/dy for Ω\Omega-dibaryons are re-calculated in this work
pΩp\Omega ΩΩ\Omega\Omega nΩnn\Omega-n pΩpp\Omega-p
200 GeV 6.84×1046.84\times 10^{-4} 2.51×1072.51\times 10^{-7} 6.95×1076.95\times 10^{-7} 2.78×1072.78\times 10^{-7}
2.76 TeV 1.95×1031.95\times 10^{-3} 8.87×1068.87\times 10^{-6} 2.37×1062.37\times 10^{-6} 9.00×1079.00\times 10^{-7}
nΩΩn\Omega-\Omega ΩΩn\Omega\Omega-n pΩΩp\Omega-\Omega ΩΩp\Omega\Omega-p
200 GeV 1.87×1091.87\times 10^{-9} 1.69×1091.69\times 10^{-9} 2.03×1092.03\times 10^{-9} 1.76×1091.76\times 10^{-9}
2.76 TeV 8.11×1098.11\times 10^{-9} 7.29×1097.29\times 10^{-9} 9.12×1099.12\times 10^{-9} 7.62×1097.62\times 10^{-9}
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Figure 5: The exponential decay relation of dN/dydN/dy versus the constituent mass number (AA) for Pb + Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. There are basically two-class production chains, namely the first class: Ndt(Λ3H)N\rightarrow d\rightarrow t~{}(^{3}_{\Lambda}H) (red), ΩNΩNNΩ\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow NN\Omega (blue), ΩΩNΩΩ\Omega\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\Omega (pink), and the second class: NNΩNΩΩN\rightarrow N\Omega\rightarrow N\Omega\Omega (green), ΩΩΩ\Omega\rightarrow\Omega\Omega (brown) and dNΩNNNΩΩd\rightarrow N\Omega N\rightarrow NN\Omega\Omega (light green) chains. These lines show the relation dN/dyexp(bA)dN/dy\sim\exp(-bA), where bb = 5.78 (red), 5.68 (blue), and 4.70 (pink) for the first class, and 11.1 (green), 13.3 (brown) and 10.7 (light green)

ΩNN\Omega NN can weak decay through an Ω\Omega decay, which decays into Λ\Lambda-hypernuclei (AA = 3) or Ξ\Xi-hypernuclei (AA = 3), note that Ξ\Xi-hypernuclei (AA = 3) can not be formed according to the HAL-QCD’s results but might be formed under the ESC08c potential Hiyama et al. (2020). ΩNN\Omega NN can also strong decay into ΛΞN\Lambda\Xi N or ΣΞN\Sigma\Xi N which is based on the interaction ΩNΛΞ\Omega N-\Lambda\Xi and ΩNΣΞ\Omega N-\Sigma\Xi reported by the HAL-QCD Sekihara et al. (2018). As for ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N, it can decay into NΩΛN\Omega\Lambda or NΩΞN\Omega\Xi and mesons from the weak decay of Ω\Omega. It can also decay into ΛΞΩ\Lambda\Xi\Omega or ΣΞΩ\Sigma\Xi\Omega by strong interaction. All here mentioned three-baryon group, such as ΛΞN\Lambda\Xi N and NΩΛN\Omega\Lambda, may not be bounded.

From Fig. 4, it is hard to figure out the difference between ΩΩ\Omega\Omega-NN and ΩN\Omega N-Ω\Omega. Although the pTp_{T} spectra of ΩΩ\Omega\Omega-NN and ΩN\Omega N-Ω\Omega are almost the same, the strong decay channels are different in the folding model. For ΩN\Omega N-Ω\Omega, it would decay into a ΛΞ\Lambda\Xi or ΣΞ\Sigma\Xi through the ΩNΛΞ\Omega N-\Lambda\Xi or ΩNΣΞ\Omega N-\Sigma\Xi channel and an Ω\Omega, while the ΩΩ\Omega\Omega-NN can hardly decay into ΛΞΩ\Lambda\Xi\Omega or ΣΞΩ\Sigma\Xi\Omega, since the NN and Ω\Omega are not bound directly in this folding model.

IV Summary

The three-body bound state problem can be solved through a variation method coupled with an eigenvalue problem. For weakly-bounded triple-particle system, the folding model is applied. The NN-Ω\Omega and Ω\Omega-Ω\Omega potentials used in this work are fitted from the lattice QCD’s simulation near the physical point, which was reported by HAL-QCD collaboration. In coalescence model, the phase-space information of nucleons and Ω\Omega are generated by the blast-wave model and the particles are coalesced into ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N by using the Wigner density function from the simplified three-body wave function. The production of NNΩNN\Omega is about 10710^{-7} and NΩΩN\Omega\Omega is about 10910^{-9}. There are also AA-dependent trends similar with that for pdt(Λ3H)p\rightarrow d\rightarrow t~{}(^{3}_{\Lambda}H). The production rates follow the exponential function exp(bA)\exp(-bA). With adding different baryon, the reduction factor bb is different. Due to different factor bb, two classes of hypernuclei chains will intersect at certain points where the production rate of new hypernucleus could be estimated. And the decay modes of ΩNN\Omega NN and ΩΩN\Omega\Omega N are briefly discussed in order to search for such exotic triple-baryons (hypernuclei) in future experiments, which could provide a method to understand the YNYN and YYYY interactions for multi-strangeness hadrons. The systematic measurements of hypernuclei can definitely shed light on the production mechanism and baryon interactions.

Acknowledgements.
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos. 11875066, 11890710, 11890714, 11925502, 11961141003, and 12147101, National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2018YFE0104600 and 2016YFE0100900, the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS under Grant No. XDB34000000, and Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research No. 2020B0301030008.

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