2006/10/21 by Hanna Paulina Gos, Gos, Hanna Paulina
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-ex/0610030
13 pages, 7 figures, the poster presented during Quark Matter 2005. submitted to Nukleonika
arxiv created 2006/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Particle correlations at small relative velocities can be used to study the space-time evolution of hot and expanding system created in heavy ion collisions. Baryon and antibaryon source sizes extracted from baryon-baryon correlations complement the information deduced from the correlation studies of identical pions. Correlations of non-identical particles are sensitive also to the space-time asymmetry of their emission. High statistics data set of STAR experiment allows us to present the results of baryon-baryon correlation measurements at various centralities and energies, as well as to take carefully into account the particle identification probability and the fraction of primary baryons and antibaryons. Preliminary results show significant contribution of annihilation channel in baryon-antibaryon correlations.