TY - JOUR
T1 - Light nuclei femtoscopy and baryon interactions in 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC
AU - Aboona, B. E.
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Aggarwal, I.
AU - Aggarwal, M. M.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Aschenauer, E. C.
AU - Aslam, S.
AU - Atchison, J.
AU - Bairathi, V.
AU - Bao, X.
AU - Barish, K.
AU - Behera, S.
AU - Bellwied, R.
AU - Bhagat, P.
AU - Bhasin, A.
AU - Bhatta, S.
AU - Bhosale, S. R.
AU - Bielcik, J.
AU - Bielcikova, J.
AU - Brandenburg, J. D.
AU - Broodo, C.
AU - Cai, X. Z.
AU - Caines, H.
AU - Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M.
AU - Cebra, D.
AU - Ceska, J.
AU - Chakaberia, I.
AU - Chaloupka, P.
AU - Chan, B. K.
AU - Chang, Z.
AU - Chatterjee, A.
AU - Chen, D.
AU - Chen, J.
AU - Chen, J. H.
AU - Chen, Q.
AU - Chen, Z.
AU - Cheng, J.
AU - Cheng, Y.
AU - Christie, W.
AU - Chu, X.
AU - Corey, S.
AU - Crawford, H. J.
AU - Csanád, M.
AU - Dale-Gau, G.
AU - Das, A.
AU - Deppner, I. M.
AU - Deshpande, A.
AU - Dhamija, A.
AU - Fatemi, R.
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© 2025 The Author(s)
PY - 2025/5
Y1 - 2025/5
N2 - We report the measurements of proton-deuteron (p-d) and deuteron-deuteron (d-d) correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 3 GeV using fixed-target mode with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). For the first time, the source size (RG), scattering length (f0), and effective range (d0) are extracted from the measured correlation functions with a simultaneous fit. The spin-averaged f0 for p-d and d-d interactions are determined to be -5.28 ± 0.11(stat.) ± 0.82(syst.) fm and -2.62 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.24(syst.) fm, respectively. The measured p-d interaction is consistent with theoretical calculations and low-energy scattering experiment results, demonstrating the feasibility of extracting interaction parameters using the femtoscopy technique. The reasonable agreement between the experimental data and the calculations from the transport model indicates that deuteron production in these collisions is primarily governed by nucleon coalescence.
AB - We report the measurements of proton-deuteron (p-d) and deuteron-deuteron (d-d) correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at sNN = 3 GeV using fixed-target mode with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). For the first time, the source size (RG), scattering length (f0), and effective range (d0) are extracted from the measured correlation functions with a simultaneous fit. The spin-averaged f0 for p-d and d-d interactions are determined to be -5.28 ± 0.11(stat.) ± 0.82(syst.) fm and -2.62 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.24(syst.) fm, respectively. The measured p-d interaction is consistent with theoretical calculations and low-energy scattering experiment results, demonstrating the feasibility of extracting interaction parameters using the femtoscopy technique. The reasonable agreement between the experimental data and the calculations from the transport model indicates that deuteron production in these collisions is primarily governed by nucleon coalescence.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139412
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139412
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105001473666
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 864
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
M1 - 139412
ER -