High energy Pb+Pb collisions viewed by pion interferometry

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Authors

I. G. Bearden · University of Copenhagen

H. Bøggild · University of Copenhagen

J. G. Boissevain · Los Alamos National Laboratory

J. Dodd · Columbia University

B. Erazmus · Laboratoire de Thermique et Energie de Nantes

S. Esumi · Hiroshima University

C. Fabjan ·

Abstract

Two-pion correlations from Pb+Pb collisions at 158 $\mathrm{GeV}/c$ per nucleon are measured by the NA44 experiment at CERN. Multidimensional fits characterize the emission volume, which is found to be larger than in S-induced collisions. Comparison to the RQMD model is used to relate the fit parameters to the actual emission volume.

Topics & Keywords

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Physical Review C

Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 1656-1665

DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.58.1656

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