TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of the Lambda-Lambda interaction with femtoscopy correlations in pp and p-Pbcollisions at the LHC
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Adamova, D.
AU - Adhya, SP
AU - Adler, A.
AU - Adolfsson, J
AU - Aggarwal, MM.
AU - Rinella, G.A.
AU - Agnello, Maria
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Bearden, Ian
AU - Gaardhøje, Jens Jørgen
AU - rtc312, rtc312
AU - Bourjau, Christian Alexander
AU - bsm989, bsm989
AU - Thoresen, Freja
AU - Pacik, Vojtech
AU - Nielsen, Børge Svane
AU - Vislavicius, Vytautas
AU - Zhou, You
AU - Schukraft, Jürgen
AU - Pierre, Richert
AU - Alice Collaboration
PY - 2019/10/10
Y1 - 2019/10/10
N2 - This work presents new constraints on the existence and the binding energy of a possible Λ–Λ bound state, the H-dibaryon, derived from Λ–Λ femtoscopic measurements by the ALICE collaboration. The results are obtained from a new measurement using the femtoscopy technique in (Figure presented.) collisions at s=13 TeV and p–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV, combined with previously published results from (Figure presented.) collisions at s=7 TeV. The Λ–Λ scattering parameter space, spanned by the inverse scattering length f0 −1 and the effective range d0, is constrained by comparing the measured Λ–Λ correlation function with calculations obtained within the Lednický model. The data are compatible with hypernuclei results and lattice computations, both predicting a shallow attractive interaction, and permit to test different theoretical approaches describing the Λ–Λ interaction. The region in the (f0 −1,d0) plane which would accommodate a Λ–Λ bound state is substantially restricted compared to previous studies. The binding energy of the possible Λ–Λ bound state is estimated within an effective-range expansion approach and is found to be BΛΛ=3.2−2.4 +1.6(stat)−1.0 +1.8(syst) MeV.
AB - This work presents new constraints on the existence and the binding energy of a possible Λ–Λ bound state, the H-dibaryon, derived from Λ–Λ femtoscopic measurements by the ALICE collaboration. The results are obtained from a new measurement using the femtoscopy technique in (Figure presented.) collisions at s=13 TeV and p–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV, combined with previously published results from (Figure presented.) collisions at s=7 TeV. The Λ–Λ scattering parameter space, spanned by the inverse scattering length f0 −1 and the effective range d0, is constrained by comparing the measured Λ–Λ correlation function with calculations obtained within the Lednický model. The data are compatible with hypernuclei results and lattice computations, both predicting a shallow attractive interaction, and permit to test different theoretical approaches describing the Λ–Λ interaction. The region in the (f0 −1,d0) plane which would accommodate a Λ–Λ bound state is substantially restricted compared to previous studies. The binding energy of the possible Λ–Λ bound state is estimated within an effective-range expansion approach and is found to be BΛΛ=3.2−2.4 +1.6(stat)−1.0 +1.8(syst) MeV.
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134822
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134822
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 797
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
M1 - 134822
ER -