Adressing the pΩ- interaction and di-baryonic states via femtoscopy

Abstract

Motivated by recent experimental measurements of the p$Ω^-$ correlation function and the concurrent theoretical efforts to describe the strong interaction among hadrons in the strangeness sector, we present a data-driven approach for fine tuning of a meson-exchanges potential for the p$Ω^-$ system. Using femtoscopy data from the ALICE and STAR collaborations, we constrain the strength of the interaction, encoded in the tunable short-range parameter introduced in the potential. The resulting model provides a good description of the measured correlation functions and favors the existence of a bound state in the \({}^5S_2\) channel with a binding energy of approximately \(0.5\,\mathrm{MeV}\). The role of the \({}^3S_1\) channel, however, remains poorly constrained due to the absence of an accurate model accounting for its inelastic contributions.