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Report number arXiv:1805.12455 ; CERN-EP-2018-150
Title p-p, p-Λ and Λ-Λ correlations studied via femtoscopy in pp reactions at s = 7 TeV
Author(s) ALICE Collaboration  Afficher les 1020 auteurs
Publication 2019-02-14
Imprint 29 May 2018
Number of pages 21
Note 32 pages, 5 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 27, submitted to PRC, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/4445
In: Phys. Rev. C 99 (2019) 024001
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.99.024001
Subject category Nuclear Physics - Experiment ; hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; nucl-ex
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ALICE
Free keywords QCD ; particle correlations and fluctuations ; experimental results
Abstract We report on the first femtoscopic measurement of baryon pairs, such as p-p, p-Λ and Λ-Λ, measured by ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV This study demonstrates the feasibility of such measurements in pp collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. The femtoscopy method is employed to constrain the hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions, which are still rather poorly understood. A new method to evaluate the influence of residual correlations induced by the decays of resonances and experimental impurities is hereby presented. The p-p, p-Λ and Λ-Λ correlation functions were fitted simultaneously with the help of a new tool developed specifically for the femtoscopy analysis in small colliding systems “Correlation Analysis Tool using the Schrödinger Equation” (CATS). Within the assumption that in collisions the three particle pairs originate from a common source, its radius is found to be equal to r0 = 1.144 ± 0.019 (stat) +0.0690.012 (syst) fm. The sensitivity of the measured p-Λ correlation is tested against different scattering parameters which are defined by the interaction among the two particles, but the statistics is not sufficient yet to discriminate among different models. The measurement of the Λ-Λ correlation function constrains the phase space spanned by the effective range and scattering length of the strong interaction. In particular, it is shown that the average values of the scattering parameters published by the STAR collaboration in Au–Au collisions at sNN = 200 GeV in combination with the Lednicky model imply an unphysical correlation function for pp collisions at the LHC.
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