Two-proton correlation function: a gentle introduction

Abstract

The recent COSY-11 collaboration measurement of the two-proton correlation function in the pp -> ppeta reaction, reported at this meeting [1], arouse some interest in a simple theoretical description of the correlation function. In these notes we present a pedagogical introduction to the practical methods that can be used for calculating the correlation function.

Comments: Prepared for the proceedings of the Symposium on Meson Physics at COSY-11 and WASA-at-COSY, Krakow, Poland, 17-22 June 2007