Femtoscopy in √SNN= 5.02 TeVp-Pb collisions withATLAS

Abstract

Bose-Einstein correlations between identified charged pions are measured for p +Pb collisions at √S NN = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector using a total integrated luminosity of 28 nb−1 . Pions are identified using ionisation energy loss measured in the pixel detector. Two-particle correlation functions and the extracted source radii are presented as a function of average transverse pair momentum (k T ) and rapidity (y ππ *) as well as collision centrality. Pairs are selected with a rapidity −2 ππ * T T . A correlation with the local single-particle multiplicity dN ch /dy * is demonstrated. The scaling of the extracted radii with the mean number of participants is also used to compare a selection of initial-geometry models. The cross term R o1 , which couples radial and longitudinal expansion, is measured as a function of rapidity, and a departure from zero is observed with 4.8 σ combined significance for y ππ * > −1 in the most central events.