Extending the ALICE strong-interaction studies to nuclei: measurement of proton-deuteron correlations in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV

The ALICE collaboration

Extending the ALICE strong-interaction studies to nuclei: measurement of proton-deuteron correlations in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV

The ALICE collaboration

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Technical University of Munich
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
Czech Academy of Sciences
Goethe University Frankfurt
CERN
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Aligarh Muslim University
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Fudan University
Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
Central China Normal University
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
COMSATS University Islamabad
University of Houston
University of Bergen
St. Petersburg State University
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Institute for Subatomic Physics
University of Münster
Heidelberg University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nantes Université
University of Oslo
Yale University
Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie

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Abstract

The large data sample of high-multiplicity pp collisions collected by ALICE allows for the precise measurement of the size of source producing primary hadrons, opening the doors to a study of the interaction of different hadron species using femtoscopy techniques. The momentum correlation between (anti)protons and (anti)deuterons measured in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV with ALICE is studied here for the first time. The measured correlation function for (p)p-(d)d pairs is compared with theoretical predictions obtained considering Coulomb and Coulomb plus strong interactions and employing the Lednický-Lyuboshitz model with scattering parameters extracted from traditional scattering experiments for the p-d system. The measured correlation function can not be reproduced by any of the obtained predictions. This deviation can to large extent be interpreted as a demonstration of the late formation time of (anti)deuterons in hadron-hadron collisions. This observation is key for the understanding of the production mechanism of light (anti)nuclei, which is an open issue in high-energy physics and has also important consequences for the study of antinuclei formation in the interstellar medium either from collisions triggered by high-energy cosmic rays or by dark matter decays.

Original language	English
Article number	391
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	398
State	Published - 2021
Event	2021 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2021 - Virtual, Online, Germany Duration: 2021.07.26 → 2021.07.30

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abstract = "The large data sample of high-multiplicity pp collisions collected by ALICE allows for the precise measurement of the size of source producing primary hadrons, opening the doors to a study of the interaction of different hadron species using femtoscopy techniques. The momentum correlation between (anti)protons and (anti)deuterons measured in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV with ALICE is studied here for the first time. The measured correlation function for (p)p-(d)d pairs is compared with theoretical predictions obtained considering Coulomb and Coulomb plus strong interactions and employing the Lednick{\'y}-Lyuboshitz model with scattering parameters extracted from traditional scattering experiments for the p-d system. The measured correlation function can not be reproduced by any of the obtained predictions. This deviation can to large extent be interpreted as a demonstration of the late formation time of (anti)deuterons in hadron-hadron collisions. This observation is key for the understanding of the production mechanism of light (anti)nuclei, which is an open issue in high-energy physics and has also important consequences for the study of antinuclei formation in the interstellar medium either from collisions triggered by high-energy cosmic rays or by dark matter decays.",

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Extending the ALICE strong-interaction studies to nuclei: measurement of proton-deuteron correlations in pp collisions at vs = 13 TeV

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