The fate of weakly bound light nuclei in central collider experiments: a challenge in favor of a late continuous decoupling mechanism

Arguments are presented  that the reaction products  of central high energy nuclear collisions up to  collider energies can be understood in terms of a continuous  decoupling mechanism.  This  includes the "late" decoupling of loosely bound  light nuclei such as deuterons or faintly bound hyper-tritons.