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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3138 - 3141 (1999)

Lambda-Proton Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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Fuqiang Wang1 and Scott Pratt2
1Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
2Department of Physics and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 17 June 1999

The prospect of using Λp correlations to extract source sizes in relativistic heavy ion collisions is investigated. It is found that the strong interaction induces a large peak in the correlation function that provides more sensitive source size measurements than pp correlations under some circumstances. The prospect of using Λp correlations to measure the time lag between lambda and proton emissions is also studied.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3138
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3138
PACS: 25.75.Gz, 13.75.Cs

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