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Final state interactions for Bose-Einstein correlations in S+Pb $\to$ $\pi^+$$\pi^+$ +X reaction at energy 200GeV/nucleon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We applied an analytical formula for Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) developed by us recently to high-energy heavy ion collisions, in particular to data on S+Pbπ+\to\pi^+-π+\pi^++X reaction at energy 200200 GeV/nucleon reported by the NA44 Collaboration. It takes into account both Coulomb and strong (π\pi-π\pi~s-wave; I=2) final state interactions (FSI). We have found that inclusion of the strong interaction in addition to Coulomb correction affects significantly the extracted parameters of the BEC like the source size RR, the degree of coherence λ\lambda and the long-range correlation parameter γ\gamma. In particular, the λ\lambda parameter of the BEC is increased by about 20\%. Our results differ from those obtained in e+ee^+e^- annihilation in the following way: the λ\lambda parameter does not reach `chaotic limit' and the γ\gamma parameter does not approach to zero.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606367,
  title  = {Final state interactions for Bose-Einstein correlations in S+Pb $\to$ $\pi^+$$\pi^+$ +X reaction at energy 200GeV/nucleon},
  author = {T. Osada and S. Sano and M. Biyajima and G. Wilk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606367},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, Latex type, 1 figure