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The strong interaction between an antikaon and a nucleon is at the origin of various interesting phenomena in kaon-nuclear systems [1]. In particular, the interaction in the isospin $I=0$ channel is sufficiently attractive to generate a quasi-bound state, the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance, below the $\bar{K}N$ threshold. Based on this picture, it may be expected that the $\bar{K}N$ interaction also generates quasi-bound states in kaon-nuclear systems, sometimes called kaonic nuclei. At the same time, the $\bar{K}N$ quasi-bound picture of the $\Lambda(1405)$ is also related to the discussion of hadronic molecules in hadron spectroscopy.
Femtoscopic study of the two-particle momentum correlation functions in high-energy collisions has become a new method to extract the hadron-hadron interactions. We study the two-particle correlation function of a $K^-p$ pair from high-energy collisions in the $\bar{K}N$-$\pi\Sigma$-$\pi\Lambda$ coupled-channels framework [2]. The effects of all coupled channels together with the Coulomb potential and the threshold energy difference between $K^-p$ and $\bar{K}^0 n$ are treated completely. Realistic potentials based on the chiral SU(3) dynamics are used which fit the available scattering data [3]. We discuss the resulting $K^-p$ correlation functions in comparison with the recent measurements by the ALICE collaboration with various collision conditions [4].
[1] T. Hyodo, W. Weise, arXiv:2202.06181 [nucl-th]
[2] Y. Kamiya, T. Hyodo, K. Morita, A. Ohnishi and W. Weise, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 132501.
[3] K. Miyahara, T. Hyodo, and W. Weise, Phys. Rev. C 98 (2018) 025201.
[4] S. Acharya et al. (ALICE collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 092301; S. Acharya et al. (ALICE collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 822 (2021) 136708, ALICE collaboration, arXiv:2205.15176 [nucl-ex]
