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Femtoscopy analysis in small systems at NA61/SHINE

Nuclear Experiment 2024-07-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

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 L\'evy-stable symmetric sources, and we discuss the average pair transverse mass dependence of the source parameters. One of the parameters, the L\'evy exponent α\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 η\eta. Its measurement hence may contribute to the search for and characterization of the critical point of the phase diagram.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2401.02553,
  title  = {Femtoscopy analysis in small systems at NA61/SHINE},
  author = {Barnabas Porfy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02553},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

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

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