PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 314 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2017) - Heavy Ion Physics (Poster Session). Scientific Secretary: Luciano Canton.
Possible effect of mixed phase and deconfinement upon spin correlations in the $\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}$ pairs generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
V.V. Lyuboshitz* and V.L. Lyuboshitz
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Pre-published on: October 30, 2017
Published on: March 20, 2018
Abstract
Spin correlations for the $\Lambda \Lambda$ and
$\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}$ pairs, generated in relativistic
heavy ion collisions, and related angular correlations at the
joint registration of space-parity nonconserving hadronic decays of two hyperons are theoretically analyzed. These correlations give important information about the character and mechanism of multiple processes, and the advantage of the
$\Lambda \Lambda$ and $\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}$ systems over
other ones is conditioned by the fact that the $P$-odd decays
$\Lambda \rightarrow p + \pi^-$ and
$\bar{\Lambda} \rightarrow \bar{p} + \pi^+$ serve as effective analyzers of spin states of the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ particles. The correlation
tensor components can be derived by the method of
"moments" -- as a result of averaging the combinations of
trigonometric functions of proton ( antiproton ) flight angles over the double angular distribution of flight directions for products of two decays. The properties of the "trace" $T$ of the correlation tensor ( a sum of three diagonal components ), which determines the angular correlations as well as the relative fractions of the triplet states and singlet state of
respective pairs, are discussed.

In the present report, spin correlations for two
identical particles ($\Lambda \Lambda$) and two
non-identical particles ($\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}$)
are generally considered from the
viewpoint of the conventional model of one-particle sources.
In the framework of this model, correlations vanish at enough
large relative momenta. However, under these conditions
( especially at ultrarelativistic energies ), in
the case of two non-identical particles ($\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}$) the two-particle annihilation sources --
quark-antiquark and two-gluon ones -- start playing a noticeable role and lead to the difference of the
correlation tensor from zero. In particular, such a situation may arise, when the system passes through the "mixed phase" and -- due to the multiple production of free quarks and gluons in the process of deconfinement
of hadronic matter -- the number of two-particle sources strongly
increases.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.314.0653
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