Studies of final state interactions via femtoscopy in ALICE

Femtoscopy is a technique enabling measurements of the space-time characteristics of particle-emitting sources. However, the femtoscopic analysis is also sensitive to the interaction cross-section. In this paper we show the first preliminary measurements of \(\rm K^0_SK^{\pm}\) correlation functions...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2016-09
Hauptverfasser: Łukasz Kamil Graczykowski, the ALICE Collaboration
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Zusammenfassung:Femtoscopy is a technique enabling measurements of the space-time characteristics of particle-emitting sources. However, the femtoscopic analysis is also sensitive to the interaction cross-section. In this paper we show the first preliminary measurements of \(\rm K^0_SK^{\pm}\) correlation functions in Pb-Pb collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02\) TeV. These correlations originate from the final-state interactions which proceed through the \(a_0(980)\) resonance only and can be employed to constrain its parameters. A similar approach can be applied to baryon pairs to extract the unknown interaction cross-sections for some (anti-)baryon-(anti-)baryon pairs. We show baryon--baryon and baryon--anti-baryon correlation functions of protons and lambdas, as well as discuss shortly the fitting method.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1609.04358