Speaker
Adam Kisiel
(CERN)
Description
We report on the results of identical pion femtoscopy of the pp collisions at the LHC with the Bose-Einstein correlations. We present the final analysis of the ALICE pp datasets at sqrt{s}= 0.9 TeV and 7 TeV and the preliminary results for sqrt{s}=2.76 TeV.
Detailed pion femtoscopy studies in heavy-ion collisions have shown
that emission region sizes ("HBT radii") decrease with increasing pair momentum, which is understood as a manifestation of the collective behavior of matter. 3D radii were also found to universally scale with event multiplicity. In pp collisions at sqer{s} = 7 and 2.76 TeV one measures multiplicities which are comparable with those registered in peripheral Au-Au and Cu-Cu collisions at RHIC, so direct comparisons and tests of scaling laws are now possible.
We show the results of double-differential 3D pion Bose-Einstein
femtoscopic analysis, as a function of multiplicity and pair
momentum. The results for three collision energies are compared to
results obtained in the heavy-ion collisions at similar multiplicity
and pp collisions at lower energy. We identify the relevant scaling
variables for the femtoscopic radii and discuss the similarities and
differences to results from heavy-ions. The observed trends give
insight into the soft particle production mechanism in pp collisions
and suggest that a self-interacting collective system may be created
in sufficiently high multiplicity events.
Primary author
Adam Kisiel
(CERN)
