Study of the Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign pions in proton-lead collisions

Collaboration
Jun 16, 2023
29 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 09 (2023) 172,
  • JHEP 09 (2023) 172
  • Published: Sep 26, 2023
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LHCb-PAPER-2023-002,
  • CERN-EP-2023-096
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
Correlations of same-sign charged pions are analysed using proton-lead collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.06 nb1^{−1}. Bose-Einstein correlations are observed in the form of an enhancement of pair production for same-sign charged pions with a small four-momentum difference. The dependence of the correlation radius and the intercept parameter on the reconstructed charged-particle multiplicity is investigated. The measured correlation radii scale linearly with the cube root of the reconstructed charged-particle multiplicity, being compatible with predictions of hydrodynamic models on the collision system evolution.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Particle Correlations and Fluctuations
  • QCD
  • p nucleus: interaction
  • lead
  • correlation: Bose-Einstein
  • correlation: two-pion
  • charged particle: multiplicity
  • correlation: measured
  • multiplicity: dependence