Simulating the emission source function in very peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Abstract
We present a microscopic femtoscopic investigation of the space-time emission source in low-multiplicity (80--90\% centrality) Pb−Pb collisions at √(sNN) = 5.02 TeV, using a hybrid transport framework coupling SMASH initial conditions, 3+1D viscous hydrodynamics (vHLLE), and a SMASH hadronic cascade afterburner. Access to the full space-time evolution of the produced particles allows for the direct reconstruction of emission source functions in both the Longitudinally Comoving System and the Pair Rest Frame. We study identical pairs of mesons (ππ, KK) and baryons (pp), as well as cross-species combinations, while explicitly isolating the contributions from primordial particles, hadronic rescattering, and long-lived resonance decays. Our analysis shows that simple Gaussian fits are inadequate for precision source analyses, whereas a combined Gaussian plus exponential parametrization better captures the compact core and the extended tail. Finally, the extracted Gaussian core radii, Rcore, for our very peripheral collisions demonstrate an approximate mT-scaling behavior rather similar to the one observed in pp reactions.
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BibTeX
@misc{ramirez2026simulating,
title = {{Simulating the emission source function in very peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions}},
author = {Angel Reina Ramírez and Volodymyr Magas and Juan M. Torres-Rincon},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28394},
eprint = {2609.28394},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28394},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Simulating the emission source function in very peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions
AU - Angel Reina Ramírez
AU - Volodymyr Magas
AU - Juan M. Torres-Rincon
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28394
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28394
AB - We present a microscopic femtoscopic investigation of the space-time emission source in low-multiplicity (80--90\% centrality) Pb−Pb collisions at √(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV, using a hybrid transport framework coupling SMASH initial conditions, 3+1D viscous hydrodynamics (vHLLE), and a SMASH hadronic cascade afterburner. Access to the full space-time evolution of the produced particles allows for the direct reconstruction of emission source functions in both the Longitudinally Comoving System and the Pair Rest Frame. We study identical pairs of mesons (ππ, KK) and baryons (pp), as well as cross-species combinations, while explicitly isolating the contributions from primordial particles, hadronic rescattering, and long-lived resonance decays. Our analysis shows that simple Gaussian fits are inadequate for precision source analyses, whereas a combined Gaussian plus exponential parametrization better captures the compact core and the extended tail. Finally, the extracted Gaussian core radii, R_core, for our very peripheral collisions demonstrate an approximate m_T-scaling behavior rather similar to the one observed in pp reactions.
ER -