https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429602001
Proton-cluster femtoscopy with the HADES experiment
1 Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
2 GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
* e-mail: stefaniak.9@osu.edu
Published online: 26 June 2024
The matter created in Ag+Ag collisions at √SNN = 2.55 GeV, as measured with the HADES experiment, can be characterized by similar thermodynamic quantities as Neutron Star Mergers, thus becoming an essential reference for the understanding of these compact stellar objects. One of the methods applied to investigate heavy-ion collisions are femtoscopic correlations. They are a unique tool for the determination of the interactions between hadrons and allow to search for possible exited or unbound states of nuclear matter. We performed precise experimental studies of the correlations between protons and different clusters and compared them with the existing theoretical descriptions.
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