Kaon femtoscopy with L\'evy-stable sources from $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = 200$ GeV $\mathrm{Au}+\mathrm{Au}$ collisions at RHIC

Author:

Ayon Mukherjee

Keyword:

Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

journal:

Universe 9 (2023) 300

date:

2023-06-15 16:00:00

Abstract

Femtoscopy has the capacity to probe the space-time geometry of the particle-emitting source in heavy-ion collisions. In particular, femtoscopy of like-sign kaon-pairs may shed light on the origin of non-Gaussianity of the spatial emission probability density. The momentum-correlations between like-sign kaon-pairs are, hence, measured in data recorded by the STAR experiment, from $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = 200$ GeV $\mathrm{Au}+\mathrm{Au}$ collisions at RHIC, BNL. Preliminary results hint at the, possible, existence of non-Gaussian, L\'evy-stable sources; and signal the, likely, presence of an anomalous diffusion process; for the identically-charged kaon-pairs so produced. More statistically significant studies, at lower centre-of-mass energies, may contribute to the search for the critical end point of QCD as well.

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