1. The proton–Ω correlation function in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200GeV
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M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, A. I. Hamad, Sedigheh Jowzaee, Roli Esha, Daniel Nemes, Jie Zhao, S. Horvat, Anik Gupta, L. C. Bland, B. J. Summa, J. Y. Zhang, F. Videbæk, A. Lipiec, J. Porter, P. Sorensen, David Brown, W. Zha, Frank Jm Geurts, T. Galatyuk, N. Yu, E. P. Sichtermann, S. Ramachandran, L. V. Nogach, B. Pawlik, F. Liu, Miroslav Simko, Mariusz Przybycien, Sumit R. Das, Y. Yang, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, Siwei Luo, O. Eyser, C. Zhou, A. Gibson, J. H. Thomas, L. P. Zhou, F-H. Chang, Q. Yang, G. S. Averichev, K. Meehan, Shize Yang, Madan M. Aggarwal, Fuqiang Wang, L. Didenko, I. Chakaberia, I. K. Yoo, J. K. Adkins, A. Harlenderova, F. Seck, Md. Nasim, R. D. Majka, L. Zhang, Wei Xie, D. K. Mishra, Xiangming Sun, M. Posik, H. M. Spinka, Arka Chatterjee, J. M. Campbell, Q. H. Xu, R. Witt, R. Fatemi, L. He, Shaji Kumar, Todd Kinghorn, D. Kalinkin, T. Ullrich, A. Aparin, I. G. Alekseev, W. Guryn, J. Schambach, H. Z. Huang, S. Vokal, J. Xu, N. Kulathunga, S. Mioduszewski, S. Fazio, A. Vossen, T. G. Dedovich, J. D. Negrete, M. A. Lisa, J. C. Mei, K. Krueger, S. Esumi, J. Fedorisin, M. M. Mondal, J. C. Webb, Isaac Mooney, N. Xu, P. Filip, N. Schmitz, Zebo Tang, Xiaofeng Luo, I. Kisel, Guo-Liang Ma, W. Christie, Li Yi, E. Shahaliev, Prithwish Tribedy, B. K. Srivastava, Chi Yang, Jaroslav Bielcik, D. G. Underwood, R. Seto, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ying Liang, J. Lidrych, G. D. Westfall, N. K. Pruthi, A. S. Hirsch, M. Cherney, Shengli Huang, Y. Li, S. Singha, Andrey Vasiliev, G. Eppley, P. Chaloupka, Ting Lin, J. Jia, Arabinda Behera, C. E. Flores, A. Ogawa, E. G. Judd, O. V. Rogachevskiy, P. Kravtsov, Fuwang Shen, A. M. Schmah, Jana Bielcikova, Z. J. Xu, D. N. Svirida, J. Pluta, J. L. Romero, J. Cheng, M. Tokarev, D. A. Morozov, A. Quintero, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, W. Li, I. Vassiliev, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, P. Federic, Lokesh Kumar, Hua Pei, S. K. Tripathy, X.G. Li, J. C. Dunlop, L. Wen, Lukas Kramarik, C. Perkins, J. W. Harris, Zongye Zhang, Y. Guo, J. M. Nelson, W. J. Llope, C. Zhong, E. C. Aschenauer, S. Trentalange, M. Zyzak, E. Finch, I. G. Bordyuzhin, Sergey Voloshin, Zubayer Ahammed, Xuedong Bai, Janet Elizabeth Seger, S. Margetis, D. L. Olvitt, L. Ma, Vitaly Okorokov, G. Agakishiev, D. S. Gunarathne, I. M. Deppner, G. Wang, Rene Bellwied, X. Dong, Bernd Surrow, Anju Bhasin, N. Elsey, G. Xie, J. Bryslawskyj, D. Mayes, Z. Chang, A. J. Bassill, D. Cebra, K. Jiang, J. A. Mazer, Giacomo Contin, K. Kauder, R. E. Tribble, W. B. Schmidke, Alexander Jentsch, T. D. S. Stanislaus, Yanjun Wu, Tetsuro Sugiura, K. Kang, T. Niida, Q. Y. Shou, C. A. Gagliardi, D. Kapukchyan, P. Federicova, C-Q. Li, D. Arkhipkin, A. Hamed, Arkadiy Taranenko, Zhanwen Zhu, Y. J. Sun, A. Lebedev, H. H. Wieman, Nihar Sahoo, C. Dilks, X. C. Chen, Christina Markert, D. Smirnov, O. Rusnakova, Michal Sumbera, R. Pak, J. Rusnak, J. L. Drachenberg, H. S. Matis, A. A. P. Suaide, Olga Evdokimov, B. Huang, Song Zhang, S. Kabana, A. H. Tang, L. K. Kosarzewski, A. F. Kraishan, Justin Ewigleben, I. Upsal, M. Sergeeva, S. B. Nurushev, W. W. Jacobs, J. Engelage, Catherine Tomkiel, B.R. Schweid, T. J. Humanic, J. Lauret, Anthony Robert Timmins, N.N. Ajitanand, L. Ruan, Joseph Kwasizur, Jay Roberts, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, R. Lednicky, L. Kochenda, T. Tarnowsky, G. Odyniec, G. Nigmatkulov, M. Shao, G. Van Buren, H. J. Crawford, Z. Ye, Jaroslav Adam, Maowu Nie, X. Huang, A. Attri, A. Kechechyan, S. S. Shi, H. W. Ke, S. K. Radhakrishnan, S. W. Wissink, L. Fulek, Pradip Kumar Sahu, T. Nonaka, B. S. Page, Y. Zhang, I. Bunzarov, O. Matonoha, D. P. Kikola, B. Stringfellow, J. M. Landgraf, R. S. Longacre, Jing-Han Chen, P. Huo, Lukas Holub, Bedangadas Mohanty, T. Todoroki, M. Strikhanov, Chong Kim, H. G. Ritter, Xuan Zhang, P. V. Shanmuganathan, Zhigang Xiao, T. Huang, J. Sandweiss, J. R. Adams, Yunpeng Liu, Derek Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. K. Bhati, N. G. Minaev, D. Mallick, W. Solyst, D. Keane, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, G. Igo, Nikolai Smirnov, N. Herrmann, L. Krauth, Jongmin Lee, L. G. Efimov, R. L. Ray, R. Ma, J. Butterworth, Y. F. Xu, R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, R. Reed, T. Ljubicic, S. Siejka, Niseem Magdy, H. Caines, M. Lomnitz, Y. Panebratsev, Saehanseul Oh, D. Grosnick, Yu-Gang Ma, Y. Fisyak, Samuel Heppelmann, K. Oh, R. Lacey, P. Szymanski, B. Tu, P. Seyboth, Jan Vanek, Leszek Adamczyk, D. Tlusty, F. G. Atetalla, O. D. Tsai, Peter Q. Liu, J. Kvapil, Nilay Shah, W. Q. Shen, Jorn Henning Putschke, A. V. Brandin, Xiang Sun, Vipul Bairathi, James Brandenburg, K. N. Barish, H. Liu, A. A. Derevschikov, David Stewart, Sevil Salur, Y. Wang, K. Yip, and Rafal Sikora
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Nuclear Theory ,Binding energy ,Lattice QCD ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,Momentum ,Correlation function ,0103 physical sciences ,Bound state ,Impact parameter ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Nucleon - Abstract
We present the first measurement of the proton–Ω correlation function in heavy-ion collisions for the central (0–40%) and peripheral (40–80%) Au + Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Predictions for the ratio of peripheral collisions to central collisions for the proton–Ω correlation function are sensitive to the presence of a nucleon–Ω bound state. These predictions are based on the proton–Ω interaction extracted from ( 2 + 1 ) -flavor lattice QCD calculations at the physical point. The measured ratio of the proton–Ω correlation function between the peripheral (small system) and central (large system) collisions is less than unity for relative momentum smaller than 40 MeV/c. Comparison of our measured correlation ratio with theoretical calculation slightly favors a proton–Ω bound system with a binding energy of ∼ 27 MeV.
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- 2019