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| 5 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of the the XXXth International
Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter
2023), Houston, Texas, United States of America, September 3 - 9, 2023,
submitted to European Physics Journal |
Abstract
| Recent measurements of femtoscopic correlations at NA61/SHINE unravel that the shape of the particle emitting source is not Gaussian. The measurements are based on Lévy-stable symmetric sources, and we discuss the average pair transverse mass dependence of the source parameters. One of the parameters, the Lévy exponent $\alpha$, is of particular importance. It describes the shape of the source, which, in the vicinity of the critical point of the QCD phase diagram, may be related to the critical exponent $\eta$. Its measurement hence may contribute to the search for and characterization of the critical point of the phase diagram. |