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Femtoscopic study of the $S=-1$ meson-baryon interaction: $K^-p$, $\pi^-\Lambda$ and $K^+\Xi^-$ correlations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-04 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the femtoscopic correlation functions of meson-baryon pairs in the strangeness S=1S=-1 sector, employing unitarized s-wave scattering amplitudes derived from the chiral Lagrangian up to next-to-leading order. For the first time, we deliver predictions on the πΛ\pi^-\Lambda and K+ΞK^+\Xi^- correlation functions which are feasible to be measured at the Large Hadron Collider. We also demonstrate that the employed model is perfectly capable of reproducing the KpK^-p correlation function data measured by the same collaboration, without the need to modify the coupling strength to the Kˉ0n\bar{K}^0n channel, as has been recently suggested. In all cases, the effects of the source size on the correlation are tested. In addition, we present detailed analysis of the different coupled-channel contributions, together with the quantification of the relative relevance of the different terms in the interaction. These calculations require the knowledge of the so-called production weights, for which we present two novel methods to compute them.

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@article{arxiv.2412.20880,
  title  = {Femtoscopic study of the $S=-1$ meson-baryon interaction: $K^-p$, $\pi^-\Lambda$ and $K^+\Xi^-$ correlations},
  author = {P. Encarnación and A. Feijoo and V. Mantovani Sarti and A. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20880},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 13 figures