Light (anti-)nuclei production and elliptic flow at the LHC with ALICE

Abstract Results on the production of stable light nuclei, including deuterons, 3 He, 4 He and the corresponding anti-nuclei, in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV and s NN = 5.02 TeV are presented and compared with theoretical predictions and with the results in small systems to provide insight into the production mechanisms of (anti-)nuclei at colliders. The experimental results are presented giving a critical view of their comparison to the expectations from coalescence and hydrodynamic models that aim at describing both the p T -spectra and the elliptic flow.