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Coulomb corrections to the three-body correlation function in high-energy heavy ion reactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

Starting from an asymptotically correct three-body Coulomb wave-function, we determine the effect of Coulomb final state interaction on the three-particle Bose-Einstein correlation function of similarly charged particles. We numerically estimate that the Riverside approximation is not precise enough to determine the three-body Coulomb correction factor in the correlation function, if the characteristic HBT radius parameter is 5 - 10 fm, which is the range of interest in high-energy heavy ion physics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812474,
  title  = {Coulomb corrections to the three-body correlation function in high-energy heavy ion reactions},
  author = {E. O. Alt and T. Csörgö and B. Lörstad and J. Schmidt-Sørensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812474},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures