Title
p−p, p−Λ , and Λ−Λ correlations studied via femtoscopy in pp reactions at s=7TeV
Date Issued
13 February 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Acharya S.
Adamová D.
Adolfsson J.
Aggarwal M.M.
Aglieri Rinella G.
Agnello M.
Agrawal N.
Ahammed Z.
Ahn S.U.
Aiola S.
Akindinov A.
Al-Turany M.
Alam S.N.
Albuquerque D.S.D.
Aleksandrov D.
Alessandro B.
Alfaro Molina R.
Ali Y.
Alici A.
Alkin A.
Alme J.
Alt T.
Altenkamper L.
Altsybeev I.
Anaam M.N.
Andrei C.
Andreou D.
Andrews H.A.
Andronic A.
Angeletti M.
Anguelov V.
Anson C.
Antičić T.
Antinori F.
Antonioli P.
Anwar R.
Apadula N.
Aphecetche L.
Appelshäuser H.
Arcelli S.
Arnaldi R.
Arnold O.W.
Arsene I.C.
Arslandok M.
Augustinus A.
Averbeck R.
Azmi M.D.
Badalà A.
Baek Y.W.
Bagnasco S.
Bailhache R.
Bala R.
Baldisseri A.
Ball M.
Baral R.C.
Barbano A.M.
Barbera R.
Barile F.
Barioglio L.
Barnaföldi G.G.
Barnby L.S.
Barret V.
Bartalini P.
Barth K.
Bartsch E.
Bastid N.
Basu S.
Batigne G.
Batyunya B.
Batzing P.C.
Bearden I.G.
Beck H.
Bedda C.
Behera N.K.
Belikov I.
Bellini F.
Bello Martinez H.
Bellwied R.
Beltran L.G.E.
Belyaev V.
Bencedi G.
Beole S.
Bercuci A.
Berdnikov Y.
Berenyi D.
Bertens R.A.
Berzano D.
Betev L.
Bhaduri P.P.
Bhasin A.
Bhat I.R.
Bhatt H.
Bhattacharjee B.
Bhom J.
Bianchi A.
Bianchi L.
Bianchi N.
Bielčík J.
Bielčíková J.
Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
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=7TeV. 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 pp collisions the three particle pairs originate from a common source, its radius is found to be equal to r0=1.125±0.018(stat)-0.035+0.058(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. Discrepancies between the measured scattering parameters and the resulting correlation functions at LHC and RHIC energies are discussed in the context of various models.
Volume
99
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física atómica, molecular y química
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061838893
Source
Physical Review C
ISSN of the container
24699985
Sponsor(s)
The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centers and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation (ANSL), State Committee of Science and World Federation of Scientists (WFS), Armenia; Austrian Academy of Sciences and Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung, Austria; Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, National Nuclear Research Center, Azerbaijan; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil; Ministry of Science & Technology of China (MSTC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Education of China (MOEC), China; Ministry of Science and Education, Croatia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences, the Carlsberg Foundation and Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark; Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland; Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Research and Religions, Greece; National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary; Department of Atomic Energy Government of India (DAE), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST), University Grants Commission, Government of India (UGC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; Indonesian Institute of Science, Indonesia; Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Institute for Innovative Science and Technology, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (IIST), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia (CONACYT) y Tecnología, through Fondo de Cooperación Internacional en Ciencia y Tecnología (FONCICYT) and Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), Mexico; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway, Norway; Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Pakistan; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru; Ministry of Science and Higher Education and National Science Centre, Poland; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Republic of Korea; Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, Institute of Atomic Physics and Romanian National Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Romania; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Russia; Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia; National Research Foundation of South Africa, South Africa; Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenergía, Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain; Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), Sweden; European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland; National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSDTA), Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and Office of the Higher Education Commission under NRU project of Thailand, Thailand; Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK), Turkey; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom; National Science Foundation of the United States of America (NSF) and United States Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE NP), United States of America.
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