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Encarnación, P., García-Lorenzo, A., Albaladejo, M., Feijoo, A., Nieves, J., & Vidaña, I. (2026). Coulomb effects in momentum-space femtoscopy: A case study of the K-Ω system. Phys. Lett. B, 882, 141041–11pp.
Abstract: We present a momentum-space framework for the consistent treatment of Coulomb interactions in femtoscopic correlation functions based on a modified Vincent-Phatak method that is more amenable to numerical implementation. The formalism provides a practical approach to incorporating Coulomb effects at the short distances relevant for femtoscopy within the Lippmann-Schwinger equation, while preserving a unified treatment of the strong interaction. As an application, we study the S = -4 pseudoscalar-baryon decuplet interaction in the K52 system and present predictions for the singly and doubly negatively charged channels, K052-and K-52-. As an additional validation of the formalism, we have also applied it to the well-studied pp system. We further assess the limitations of the asymptotic wave-function approximation and quantify corrections accounting for the short-distance structure of the interaction potential. We introduce a phenomenological parameter that effectively absorbs contributions from both the finite source size and the off-shell structure of the interaction, the latter being one of the main obstacles to extracting detailed information on hadron-hadron interactions from femtoscopic measurements in a model-independent way.
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