Published 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Baryon-baryon femtoscopy in pp collisions at 7 TeV with ALICE at the LHC

  • 1. Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching (Germany)
  • 2. Physik Department, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Garching (Germany)

Description

Two-particle correlation functions at low relative momenta are sensitive to the size of the emission zone of the particles. By knowing the interaction of the emitted particle pair very precisely it is possible to make a detailed study of the source size of the system, which has an extension on the fermi scale. This is usually done with particle pairs, where the interaction is precisely known. However, if the size of the emission zone is constrained one can use the femtoscopy technique to investigate the interaction between pairs of particles where not much is known about the interaction. We use the femtoscopy technique to measure the correlation functions of proton-proton, proton-Lambda and Lambda-Lambda pairs, which were produced in pp collisions at 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider and measured with the ALICE experiment. This is the first femtoscopy measurement with baryon pairs at such a large energy and small system. We show that a simultaneous fit of the proton-proton and proton-Lambda correlation functions is sensitive to scattering parameters of the proton-Lambda pair. This opens the possibility to investigate the interaction of proton-Lambda pairs complementary to scattering experiments.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Muenster 2017 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 52(4)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
81. Annual meeting of DPG and DPG Spring meeting 2017 of the divisions on hadronic and nuclear physics, radiation and medical physics, particle physics and the working groups on equal opportunities, energy, information, young DPG, physics and disarmament
Original Conference Title
81. Jahrestagung der DPG und DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2017 der Fachverbaende Physik der Hadronen und Kerne, Strahlen- und Medizinphysik, Teilchenphysik und Arbeitskreise Chancengleichheit, Energie, Industrie und Wirtschaft sowie der Arbeitsgruppen Information, junge DPG, Physik und Abruestung
Dates
27-31 Mar 2017
Place
Muenster (Germany)

Optional Information

Notes
Session: HK 20.8 Di 16:00; No further information available
Collaborations
ALICE-Collaboration