From hyperon--nucleon interactions to deuteron--hyperon femtoscopy

Abstract

We investigate the low-energy scattering and femtoscopic correlation functions of the $d-Λ$, $d-Σ$, and $d-Ξ$ systems within a microscopic folding approach. The effective deuteron--hyperon interactions are constructed by folding the HAL-QCD hyperon--nucleon potentials with the deuteron wave function, while the spin and isospin structures are treated through Wigner-$6j$ recoupling coefficients. Using the resulting interactions, we calculate the scattering parameters and momentum correlation functions for all spin channels. No bound states are found for the $dΛ$, $dΣ$, or $dΞ$ systems. Nevertheless, the $dΛ$ correlation exhibits a pronounced low-momentum enhancement associated with a large scattering length and a near-threshold pole, whereas the $dΣ$ correlation is suppressed by its predominantly repulsive interaction. The neutral $dΞ^{0}$ system shows only a moderate enhancement, while the charged $dΞ^{-}$ correlation is strongly amplified by the attractive Coulomb interaction. We further investigate feed-down effects from $Σ^{0}$, $Σ(1385)$, and $Ξ$ decays using Monte Carlo response matrices and demonstrate that these decays clearly modify the observable $dΛ$ correlation. Our results provide quantitative predictions for future femtoscopic measurements and establish deuteron--hyperon correlations as a sensitive probe of hyperon--nucleus interactions.