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Extracting baryon-antibaryon strong interaction potentials from p$\bar{\Lambda}$ femtoscopic correlation function

Nuclear Theory 2014-06-11 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The STAR experiment has measured pΛp\Lambda, pˉΛˉ\bar{p}\bar{\Lambda}, pˉΛ\bar{p}\Lambda, and pΛˉp\bar{\Lambda} femtoscopic correlation functions in central Au+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV. The system size extracted for pΛp\Lambda and pˉΛˉ\bar{p}\bar{\Lambda} is consistent with model expectations and results for other pair types, while for pΛˉp\bar{\Lambda} and pˉΛ\bar{p}\Lambda it is not consistent with the other two and significantly lower. In addition an attempt was made to extract the unknown parameters of the strong interaction potential for this baryon-antibaryon (BBˉB\bar{B}) pair. In this work we reanalyze the STAR data, taking into account residual femtoscopic correlations from heavier BBˉB\bar{B} pairs. We obtain new estimates for the system size, consistent with the results for pΛp\Lambda and pˉΛˉ\bar{p}\bar{\Lambda} pairs and with model expectations. We give new estimates for the strong interaction potential parameters for pΛˉp\bar{\Lambda} and show that similar constraints can be given for parameters for other, heavier BBˉB\bar{B} pairs.

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@article{arxiv.1403.0433,
  title  = {Extracting baryon-antibaryon strong interaction potentials from p$\bar{\Lambda}$ femtoscopic correlation function},
  author = {Adam Kisiel and Hanna Zbroszczyk and Maciej Szymanski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.0433},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures

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