Unveiling the strong interaction among hadrons at the LHC
by
Marek Kowalski(Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland)
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Description
One of the key challenges for nuclear physics today is to understand from first principles the effective interaction between hadrons with different quark content. Experimentally, the dynamics of the strong interaction have been studied by scattering hadrons off each other. Such scattering experiments are difficult or impossible for unstable hadronsand so high-quality measurements exist only for hadrons containing up and down quarks. Measuring correlations in the momentum space between hadron pairsproduced in ultrarelativistic proton–proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provides a precise method with which to obtain the missing information on the interaction dynamics between any pair of unstable hadrons.
