Pion-kaon femtoscopy and the lifetime of the hadronic phase in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

0540938 - ÚJF 2022 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adamová, Dagmar - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Herman, T. - Horák, D. - Isakov, Artem - Křížek, Filip - Křížková Gajdošová, K. - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Mareš, Jiří A. - Petráček, V. - Šafařík, K. - Šumbera, Michal - Torres, S. R. - Trzeciak, B. A. - Závada, Petr … Total 1028 authors
Pion-kaon femtoscopy and the lifetime of the hadronic phase in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 813, FEB (2021), č. článku 136030. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion experiments
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 4.950, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.136030

In this paper, the first femtoscopic analysis of pion-kaon correlations at the LHC is reported. The analysis was performed on the Pb-Pb collision data at root(S)(NN) = 2.76 TeV recorded with the ALICE detector. The non-identical particle correlations probe the spatio-temporal separation between sources of different particle species as well as the average source size of the emitting system. The sizes of the pion and kaon sources increase with centrality, and pions are emitted closer to the centre of the system and/or later than kaons. This is naturally expected in a system with strong radial flow and is qualitatively reproduced by hydrodynamic models. ALICE data on pion-kaon emission asymmetry are consistent with (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics coupled to a statistical hadronisation model, resonance propagation, and decay code THERMINATOR 2 calculation, with an additional time delay between 1 and 2 fm/c for kaons. The delay can be interpreted as evidence for a significant hadronic rescattering phase in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0318531