Valentina Mantovani, IFIC Seminar: "Studying hadronic interactions with correlations at LHC"
1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario
Universe
In recent years, correlation measurements at the Large Hadron Collider, particularly in small collision systems such as proton-proton, have proven to be a powerful and complementary experimental tool to access the strong interaction in hadronic systems with strange and charm content.
The underlying QCD dynamics in these sectors can give rise to a rich spectrum of exotic states beyond the conventional meson and baryon picture. The nature and internal structure of such states are strongly influenced by the interplay between coupled channels, and experimental constraints on their properties are typically obtained from invariant-mass analyses performed at hadronic and at electron-positron colliders.
In this talk, I will discuss how femtoscopy can contribute to the search for and the understanding of these exotic states. I will present recent results on correlation measurements from Run 2 data collected by the ALICE collaboration for systems involving strange and charm hadrons. Preliminary expectations for measurements with the ongoing Run 3 data taking will be briefly discussed, together with future perspectives offered by the novel ALICE 3 experiment, highlighting the potential of femtoscopy to shed light on the composition of heavy multi-quark states.
