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Kaon femtoscopy of Pb-Pb and pp collisions at the LHC with the ALICE experiment
We report on the results of femtoscopic analyses of Pb-Pb collisions at
=2.76 TeV and pp collisions at = 7 TeV with identical
charged and neutral kaons. The femtoscopic correlations allow one to measure
the space-time characteristics of particle production using particle
correlations due to the effects of quantum statistics for identical particles
and final state interaction for both identical and non-identical ones. Small
contributions from resonance decays make kaon femtoscopy an ideal tool for the
correlation studies. In conjunction with pion and proton femtoscopy, they can
also reveal properties of collective dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. ALICE
results are compared with the existing world data on kaon femtoscopy in
different type of collisions. The theoretical expectations for pp and Pb-Pb
collisions are considered.Comment: Proceedings of International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics,
Crete, 201
Femtoscopy with ALICE at the LHC
Femtoscopy allows one to measure the space-time characteristics of particle production using correlations resulting from the effects of quantum statistics and final state interactions. We present the results of femtoscopic analyses for different two-particle systems measured by ALICE in Pb-Pb, p-Pb and pp collisions, pointing out the similarities and differences between small and large systems. Results for kaons provide a cross-check of the information about the dynamics of the source and the importance of the hadronic rescattering phase. The recent femtoscopic results for baryon-(anti-)baryon pairs and kaon pairs allow one to study the strong interaction parameters and cross-sections
Dynamical vs geometric anisotropy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions: which one prevails?
We study the influence of geometric and dynamical anisotropies on the
development of flow harmonics and, simultaneously, on the second- and
third-order oscillations of femtoscopy radii. The analysis is done within the
Monte Carlo event generator HYDJET++, which was extended to dynamical
triangular deformations. It is shown that the merely geometric anisotropy
provides the results which anticorrelate with the experimental observations of
either (or ) or second-order (or third-order) oscillations of the
femtoscopy radii. Decays of resonances significantly increase the emitting
areas but do not change the phases of the radii oscillations. In contrast to
the spatial deformations, the dynamical anisotropy alone provides the correct
qualitative description of the flow and the femtoscopy observables
simultaneously. However, one needs both types of the anisotropy to match
quantitatively the experimental data.Comment: minor corrections, published versio
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