A technique to study the elastic and inelastic interaction of quarkonium with hadrons using femtoscopic correlations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a femtoscopic correlation method using the Lednicky-Lyuboshitz model to measure elastic and inelastic interactions of charmonium with hadrons, enabling new insights into quarkonium-hadron dynamics at high-energy colliders.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel femtoscopic analysis technique for charmonium-hadron interactions using the Lednicky-Lyuboshitz model, applicable at LHCb and RHIC.

Findings

Feasibility of measuring interaction parameters at LHCb.

Potential to study quarkonium-hadron interactions in existing experiments.

Enhanced understanding of inelastic and elastic scattering processes.

Abstract

We present a method for the measurement of parameters of elastic and inelastic interactions of charmonium with hadrons. In this technique, we use femtoscopic analysis of charmonium-hadron correlations at low relative momentum and the Lednicky-Lyuboshitz analytical model to extract the interaction parameters. We argue that such a study is already feasible in the LHCb experiment at the LHC, and we discuss the prospects for studies in the STAR at RHIC and other experiments at the LHC.