PT Journal
AU HADES Collaboration (Agakishiev, Gea
   Diaz, J
   Gil, A
TI Lambda-p femtoscopy in collisions of Ar + KCl at 1.76AGeV
SO Physical Review C
JI Phys. Rev. C
PY 2010
BP 021901
EP 5pp
VL 82
IS 2
DI 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.021901
LA English
AB Results on Lambda p femtoscopy are reported at the lowest energy so far. At a beam energy of 1.76AGeV, the reaction Ar + KCl was studied with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer ( HADES) at SIS18/GSI. A high-statistics and high-purity Lambda sample was collected, allowing for the investigation of Lambda p correlations at low relative momenta. The experimental correlation function is compared to corresponding model calculations allowing the determination of the space-time extent of the Lambda p emission source. The Lambda p source radius is found to be slightly smaller than the pp correlation radius for a similar collision system. The present Lambda p radius is significantly smaller than that found for Au + Au/Pb + Pb collisions in the AGS, SPS, and RHIC energy domains but larger than that observed for electroproduction from He. Taking into account all available data, we find the Lambda p source radius to increase almost linearly with the number of participants to the power of one-third.
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