UH Physics Research Day - 2023

Two particle correlations of neutral and charged kaons in heavy-ion collisions

Not scheduled

20m

University of Houston - Main Campus

Poster High Energy Physics, Nuclear Theory and QFT Poster Session

Speaker

Anjaly Menon

Description

Measurements of two particle correlations are sensitive to several characteristics of the
medium created in heavy ion collisions. Looking at the correlations of charged and
neutral kaons might provide information about the potential formation of disoriented
chiral condensates (DCCs). Previous ALICE measurements have indeed shown a
strong anti-correlation between charged and neutral kaons, which is qualitatively
consistent with the formation of DCCs. The initial goal of this analysis is to perform
charged and neutral kaon identification with high purity using the ALICE detector. Once
the neutral and charged kaons are cleanly identified, they can be used to construct the
two-particle correlation function. We will show measurements of a more differential
analysis of these correlations as function of $\mathrm{\Delta }\phi$ and $\mathrm{\Delta }\eta$ from Pb-
Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\mathrm{N}}}=$ 5.02 TeV.