Femtoscopy analysis of ultra-soft pion trap at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Femtoscopy analysis of ultra-soft pion trap at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Femtoscopy studies of pion radiation in heavy-ion collisions have been conducted extensively at all available collider energies, both theoretically and experimentally. In all these studies a special interest is given to $m_{T}$ dependency of pion femtoscopy radii, usually approximated by a power-law...

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Main Authors: Rzesa, W, Kornakov, G, Kisiel, A. R, Sinyukov, Yu. M, Shapoval, V. M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 04-03-2024
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Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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Summary:Femtoscopy studies of pion radiation in heavy-ion collisions have been conducted extensively at all available collider energies, both theoretically and experimentally. In all these studies a special interest is given to $m_{T}$ dependency of pion femtoscopy radii, usually approximated by a power-law function at transverse momenta above 200 MeV/$c$. However, the radii behaviour has been much less explored for the ultra-soft pions, possessing the transverse momentum comparable to or lower than the pion mass. For many experimental setups this region is difficult to measure. In this work we present theoretical calculations of pion emission in the ultra-soft region in the two hybrid models -- iHKM and LHYQUID+THERMINATOR2. Along with the particle transverse momentum spectra, we present the calculated femtoscopy radii, both in one-dimensional and three-dimensional representations. We investigate the radii dependence on pair $m_{T}$ and observe, in particular, a departure from the power-law behaviour at ultra-soft momenta, potentially reflecting a decoupling of such slow pions from the rest of collectively expanding system. We provide the theoretical interpretation of this result and discuss its significance, in particular, for the ongoing non-identical particle femtoscopy analysis for pairs consisting of a pion and a baryon (or of a pion and a charmed meson).
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2403.02551