Study of $\text{D}^0$ meson interactions via femtoscopic correlations

TL;DR

This paper explores femtoscopic correlations of D^0 mesons in high-energy collisions to probe the strong interaction and source size effects, enhancing understanding of hadron interactions at quantum scales.

Contribution

It introduces a femtoscopic analysis of D^0 meson correlations to study strong interactions and source size sensitivity in high-energy collision environments.

Findings

Demonstrates sensitivity of D^0 correlations to source size variations

Provides insights into strong interaction effects in meson pairs

Enhances femtoscopic methods for heavy-flavor hadron studies

Abstract

Femtoscopy is a powerful tool that can be used to investigate the space-time dimensions of the region from which the particles are emitted. When applied to high energy collisions this method is sensitive not only to quantum statistics, but also to final state interactions, such as strong interactions between hadrons and Coulomb interactions when considering charged particles. In particular, this procedure is used to investigate the sensitivity of the strong interaction to different source sizes for $\textrm{D}^{0}$ mesons correlations.