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Residual correlations between decay products of $\pi^0\pi^0$ and $p\Sigma^0$ systems

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Residual correlations between decay products due to a combination of both correlations between parents at small relative velocities and small decay momenta are discussed. Residual correlations between photons from pion decays are considered as a new possible source of information on direct photon fraction. Residual correlations in pγp\gamma and pΛp\Lambda systems due to pΣ0p\Sigma^0 interaction in final state are predicted based on the pΣ0p\Sigma^0 low energy scattering parameters deduced from the spin-flavour SU6_6 model by Fujiwara et al. including effective meson exchange potentials and explicit flavour symmetry breaking to reproduce the properties of the two-nucleon system and the low-energy hyperon-nucleon cross section data. The pγΣ0p\gamma_{\Sigma^0} residual correlation is concentrated at k70k^* \approx 70 Mev/cc and its shape and intensity appears to be sensitive to the scattering parameters and space-time dimensions of the source. The pΛΣ0p\Lambda_{\Sigma^0} residual correlation recovers the negative parent pΣ0p\Sigma^0 correlation for k>70k^* > 70 Mev/cc. The neglect of this negative residual correlation would lead to the underestimation of the parent pΛp\Lambda correlation effect and to an overestimation of the source size.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3290,
  title  = {Residual correlations between decay products of $\pi^0\pi^0$ and $p\Sigma^0$ systems},
  author = {A. Stavinskiy and K. Mikhailov and B. Erazmus and R. Lednicky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3290},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures