Femtoscopy using Lévy-type source at NA61/SHINE
B. Porfy*
on behalf of the NA61/SHINE Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 17, 2024
Published on:
April 29, 2025
Abstract
In the recent years, research studies in high-energy physics have confirmed the creation of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. NA61/SHINE at CERN SPS investigates hadronic matter properties by varying collision energy ($\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} \approx 5.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.8, 12$, and 16.8 GeV) and systems (such as p+p, p+Pb, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Xe+La, Pb+Pb). Utilizing femtoscopic correlations, we can unveil the space-time structure of the hadron emitting source. Our focus is on femtoscopic correlations in small to intermediate systems, comparing measurements with source calculations based on Lévy-distributed sources, to explore the pair transverse mass dependence of the Lévy source parameters. The Lévy exponent $\alpha$ is of particular significance, which characterizes the shape of the source and may be connected to the critical exponent $\eta$ near the critical point. Our analysis will reveal that the L\'evy shape parameter, $\alpha$, has a slight non-monotonic behaviour as a function of collision energy and that we see a deviation from Gaussian sources. Finally, it will be shown that there is no indication of the critical point at any of the investigated energies.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0603
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