Experimental Evidence for an Attractive p-φ Interaction
Acharya, Shreyasi; Adamová, Dagmar; Adler, Alexander; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Nikita; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahmad, Shafiq F.; Ahn, Sang Un; Ahuja, Ishaan; Alme, Johan; Altenkaemper, Lucas; Djuvsland, Øystein; Eikeland, Viljar Nilsen; Ersdal, Magnus Rentsch; Fionda, Fiorella Maria Celeste; Grøttvik, Ola Slettevoll; Lofnes, Ingrid Mckibben; Nystrand, Joakim Ingemar; Rehman, Attiq Ur; Röhrich, Dieter; Sætre, Jon-Are; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Ullaland, Kjetil; Wagner, Boris; Yang, Shiming; Yuan, Shiming; Arsene, Ionut Cristian; Dordic, Olja; Malik, Qasim Waheed; Neagu, Alexandra; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Storehaug, Ida Torkjellsdatter; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Nesbø, Simon Voigt; Reme-Ness, Haakon André; Storetvedt, Maksim Melnik; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen André; Akbar, Zaenai; Akindinov, Alexander; Al-Turany, Mohammed; Alam, Sk Noor; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; ALICE, Collaboration
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Acharya, S., Adamová, D., Adler, A., Adolfsson, J., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., . . . Zurlo, N. (2021). Experimental Evidence for an Attractive p−ϕ Interaction. Physical Review Letters, 127(17):172301. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.172301Sammendrag
This Letter presents the first experimental evidence of the attractive strong interaction between a proton and a ϕ meson. The result is obtained from two-particle correlations of combined p−ϕ ⊕ −p−ϕ pairs measured in high-multiplicity pp collisions at √s=13 TeV by the ALICE Collaboration. The spin-averaged scattering length and effective range of the p−ϕ interaction are extracted from the fully corrected correlation function employing the Lednický-Lyuboshits approach. In particular, the imaginary part of the scattering length vanishes within uncertainties, indicating that inelastic processes do not play a prominent role for the p−ϕ interaction. These data demonstrate that the interaction is dominated by elastic p−ϕ scattering. Furthermore, an analysis employing phenomenological Gaussian- and Yukawa-type potentials is conducted. Under the assumption of the latter, the N−ϕ coupling constant is found to be gN−ϕ=0.14±0.03(stat)±0.02(syst). This work provides valuable experimental input to accomplish a self-consistent description of the N−ϕ interaction, which is particularly relevant for the more fundamental studies on partial restoration of chiral symmetry in nuclear medium.