Kaon femtoscopy in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
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Abstract
We present the results of three-dimensional femtoscopic analyses for
charged and neutral kaons recorded by ALICE in Pb-Pb collisions at root
s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. Femtoscopy is used to measure the space-time
characteristics of particle production from the effects of quantum
statistics and final-state interactions in two-particle correlations.
Kaon femtoscopy is an important supplement to that of pions because it
allows one to distinguish between different model scenarios working
equally well for pioons. In particular, we compare the measured
three-dimensional kaon radii with a purely hydrodynamical calculation
and a model where the hydrodynamic phase is followed by a hadronic
rescattering stage. The former predicts an approximate transverse mass
(m(T)) scaling of source radii obtained from pion and kaon correlations.
This m(T) scaling appears to be broken in our data, which indicates the
importance of the hadronic rescattering phase at LHC energies. A k(T)
scaling of pion and kaon source radii is observed instead. The time of
maximal emission of the system is estimated by using the
three-dimensional femtoscopic analysis for kaons. The measured emission
time is larger than that of pions. Our observation is well supported by
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