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Evidence for non-Gaussian tail in 3D pion emission source at the SPS

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

The NA49 experiment at CERN SPS has acquired a huge data set of Pb+Pb events over a broad range of energy and centrality during the last several years. This high statistics data set, coupled with a state-of-the-art analysis technique, allows for the first model-independent extraction and energy scan of 3D emission sources for pion pairs at SPS energies. These 3D pion emission sources provide new insights into the nature of a long-range source previously reported by PHENIX at RHIC. The new results indicate that the pion source displays significant non-Gaussian tails in the longitudinal direction at 40 and 158 AGeV and in the outward direction at 158 AGeV.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2690,
  title  = {Evidence for non-Gaussian tail in 3D pion emission source at the SPS},
  author = {P Chung and P Danielewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2690},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Proceedings, QM06, Beijing, China