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Continuous emission versus freeze-out via HBT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The effect of the continuous emission hypothesis on the two-pion Bose-Einstein correlation function is discussed and compared with the corresponding results based on the usual freeze-out. Sizeable differences in the correlation function appear in these different descriptions of the decoupling process. This means that, when extracting properties of the hot matter formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions from the data, completely different conclusions may be reached according to the description of the particle emission process adopted.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0002275,
  title  = {Continuous emission versus freeze-out via HBT},
  author = {Frederique Grassi and Yogiro Hama and Sandra S. Padula and Otavio Socolowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0002275},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures