Charged kaon femtoscopic correlations in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s}=7 TeV

Collaboration
Dec, 2012
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 87 (2013) 5, 052016
  • Published: Mar 25, 2013
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-PH-EP-2012-337
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
Correlations of two charged identical kaons (KchKch) are measured in pp collisions at s=7  TeV by the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). One-dimensional KchKch correlation functions are constructed in three multiplicity and four transverse momentum ranges. The KchKch femtoscopic source parameters R and λ are extracted. The KchKch correlations show a slight increase of femtoscopic radii with increasing multiplicity and a slight decrease of radii with increasing transverse momentum. These trends are similar to the ones observed for ππ and Ks0Ks0 correlations in pp and heavy-ion collisions. However at high multiplicities, there is an indication that the one-dimensional correlation radii for charged kaons are larger than those for pions in contrast to what was observed in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider.
Note:
  • 25.75.Nq
  • multiplicity: dependence
  • p p: scattering
  • correlation: (2K+)
  • correlation: (2K-)
  • transverse momentum: dependence
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • correlation function
  • ALICE
  • correlation: two-pion