We present the first measurements of femtoscopic correlations between the KS0 and K± particles in pp collisions at s=7 TeV measured by the ALICE experiment. The observed femtoscopic correlations are consistent with final-state interactions proceeding solely via the a0(980) resonance. The extracted kaon source radius and correlation strength parameters for KS0K− are found to be equal within the experimental uncertainties to those for KS0K+. Results of the present study are compared with those from identical-kaon femtoscopic studies also performed with pp collisions at s=7 TeV by ALICE and with a KS0K± measurement in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. Combined with the Pb–Pb results, our pp analysis is found to be compatible with the interpretation of the a0(980) having a tetraquark structure instead of that of a diquark.

Measuring KS0K± interactions using pp collisions at √s=7 TeV / Acharya, S., Acosta, F.T., Adamova, D., Adler, A., Adolfsson, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawal, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahn, S.U., Aiola, S., Akindinov, A., Al-Turany, M., Alam, S.N., Albuquerque, D.S.D., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alfanda, H.M., Alfaro Molina, R., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - STAMPA. - 790:(2019), pp. 22-34. [10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.033]

Measuring KS0K± interactions using pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

Bruno G. E.;
2019

Abstract

We present the first measurements of femtoscopic correlations between the KS0 and K± particles in pp collisions at s=7 TeV measured by the ALICE experiment. The observed femtoscopic correlations are consistent with final-state interactions proceeding solely via the a0(980) resonance. The extracted kaon source radius and correlation strength parameters for KS0K− are found to be equal within the experimental uncertainties to those for KS0K+. Results of the present study are compared with those from identical-kaon femtoscopic studies also performed with pp collisions at s=7 TeV by ALICE and with a KS0K± measurement in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. Combined with the Pb–Pb results, our pp analysis is found to be compatible with the interpretation of the a0(980) having a tetraquark structure instead of that of a diquark.
2019
Measuring KS0K± interactions using pp collisions at √s=7 TeV / Acharya, S., Acosta, F.T., Adamova, D., Adler, A., Adolfsson, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawal, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahn, S.U., Aiola, S., Akindinov, A., Al-Turany, M., Alam, S.N., Albuquerque, D.S.D., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alfanda, H.M., Alfaro Molina, R., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - STAMPA. - 790:(2019), pp. 22-34. [10.1016/j.physletb.2018.12.033]
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