The coalescence model was first introduced to nuclear physics in early 1960 to understand deuteron production in high-energy proton scattering from a nucleus.  It has since become a useful model for describing the production of light nuclei in heavy ion collisions and hadrons of intermediate transverse momenta from a quark-gluon plasma.  It has also been used for modeling the hadronization of jets both in vacuum and in medium.  In this talk, I will review the historical developments of the coalescence model and discuss its recent applications.

Host: Prof. Lie-Wen Chen