• Corpus ID: 254044508

Investigation of K$^{+}$K$^{-}$ interactions via femtoscopy in Pb$-$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} =2.76$ TeV at the LHC

@inproceedings{Collaboration2022InvestigationOK,
  title={Investigation of K\$^\{+\}\$K\$^\{-\}\$ interactions via femtoscopy in Pb\$-\$Pb collisions at \$\sqrt\{s\_\{\mathrm\{NN\}\}\} =2.76\$ TeV at the LHC},
  author={Alice Collaboration},
  year={2022}
}

• Alice Collaboration
• Published 28 November 2022
• Physics

Femtoscopic correlations of non-identical charged kaons (K + K − ) are studied in Pb–Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon collision √ s NN = 2 . 76 TeV by ALICE at the LHC. One-dimensional K + K − correlation functions are analyzed in three centrality classes and eight intervals of particle-pair transverse momentum. The Lednický and Luboshitz interaction model used in the K + K − analysis includes the final-state Coulomb interactions between kaons and the final-state interaction through a 0 (980) and f 0 (980) resonances. The mass of f 0 (980) and coupling were extracted from the fit to K + K − correlation functions using the femtoscopic technique for the first time. The measured mass and width of the f 0 (980) resonance are consistent with other published measurements. The height of the φ (1020) meson peak present in the K + K − correlation function rapidly decreases with increasing source radius, qualitatively in agreement with an inverse volume dependence. A phenomenological fit to this trend suggests that the φ (1020) meson yield is dominated by particles produced directly from the hadronization of the system. The small fraction subsequently produced by FSI could not be precisely quantified with data presented in this paper and will be assessed in future work.