Search for the Strange Dibaryons with Baryon Correlations in Isobar Collisions at STAR

Abstract

Dibaryons provide insight into the strong interaction beyond conventional hadrons. Strange dibaryons, containing strange quarks, are especially valuable for probing hyperon-nucleon (YN) and hyperon-hyperon (YY) interactions. We report measurements of $p$-$\Xi^-$ and $p$-$\Omega^-$ correlation functions in Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. The analysis, using the Lednicky-Lyuboshitz formalism, yields scattering parameters that offer key implications for the possible formation of strange dibaryon bound states, particularly $H$ ($S = -2$) and $N\Omega$ ($S = -3$).