TY - INPR T1 - First measurement of antideuteron number fluctuations at energies available at the Large Hadron Collider T2 - arXiv N2 - The first measurement of event-by-event antideuteron number fluctuations in high energy heavy-ion collisions is presented. The measurements are carried out at midrapidity (|η|<0.8) as a function of collision centrality in Pb−Pb collisions at sNN−−−√=5.02 TeV using the ALICE detector. A significant negative correlation between the produced antiprotons and antideuterons is observed in all collision centralities. The results are compared with coalescence calculations, which fail to describe the measurement, in particular if a correlated production of protons and neutrons is assumed. Thermal-statistical model calculations describe the data within uncertainties only for correlation volumes that are different with respect to those describing proton yields and a similar measurement of net-proton number fluctuations. T3 - CERN Report - CERN-EP-2022-040 Y1 - 2022 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/80170 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-801704 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10166v1 IS - 2204.10166 Version 1 PB - arXiv ER -