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Studies of final state interactions via femtoscopy in ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

Femtoscopy is a technique enabling measurements of the space-time characteristics of particle-emitting sources. However, the femtoscopic analysis is also sensitive to the interaction cross-section. In this paper we show the first preliminary measurements of KS0K±\rm K^0_SK^{\pm} correlation functions in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02 TeV. These correlations originate from the final-state interactions which proceed through the a0(980)a_0(980) resonance only and can be employed to constrain its parameters. A similar approach can be applied to baryon pairs to extract the unknown interaction cross-sections for some (anti-)baryon-(anti-)baryon pairs. We show baryon--baryon and baryon--anti-baryon correlation functions of protons and lambdas, as well as discuss shortly the fitting method.

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@article{arxiv.1609.04358,
  title  = {Studies of final state interactions via femtoscopy in ALICE},
  author = {Łukasz Kamil Graczykowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04358},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings from Strangeness in Quark Matter 2016 conference