Baryon femtoscopy considering residual correlations as a tool to extract strong interaction potentials

In this article, the analysis of baryon-antibaryon femtoscopic correlations is presented. In particular, it is shown that taking into account residual correlations is crucial for the description of p$\bar \Lambda $ and p̄Λ correlation functions measured by the STAR experiment in Au–Au collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair √sNN = 200 GeV. This approach enables to obtain p$\bar \Lambda $ (p̄Λ) source size consistent with the sizes extracted from correlations in pΛ (p̄$\bar \Lambda $) and lighter pair systems as well as with model predictions. Moreover, with this analysis it is possible to derive the unknown parameters of the strong interaction potential for baryon-antibaryon pairs under several assumptions