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Baryon - baryon correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)= 62 GeV and sqrt(sNN)= 200 GeV, measured in the STAR experiment at RHIC

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Particle correlations at small relative velocities can be used to study the space-time evolution of hot and expanding system created in heavy ion collisions. Baryon and antibaryon source sizes extracted from baryon-baryon correlations complement the information deduced from the correlation studies of identical pions. Correlations of non-identical particles are sensitive also to the space-time asymmetry of their emission. High statistics data set of STAR experiment allows us to present the results of baryon-baryon correlation measurements at various centralities and energies, as well as to take carefully into account the particle identification probability and the fraction of primary baryons and antibaryons. Preliminary results show significant contribution of annihilation channel in baryon-antibaryon correlations.

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Hanna Paulina Gos. 2006-10-21. Baryon - baryon correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)= 62 GeV and sqrt(sNN)= 200 GeV, measured in the STAR experiment at RHIC. https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0610030

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