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Bose-Einstein Correlations from Random Walk Models

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We argue that strong final state rescattering among the secondary particles created in relativistic heavy ion collisions is essential to understand the measured Bose-Einstein correlations. The recently suggested ``random walk models'' which contain only initial state scattering are unable to reproduce the measured magnitude and K_\perp-dependence of R_\perp in Pb+Pb collisions and the increase of R_l with increasing size of the collision system.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9711013,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein Correlations from Random Walk Models},
  author = {Boris Tomasik and Ulrich Heinz and Jan Pisut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9711013},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, REVTEX, 1 figure included with epsf.sty, revised version to be published in Phys.Lett.B