Imaging proton sources and space-momentum correlations
Abstract
The reliable extraction of information from two-proton correlation functions is a long-standing problem in two-particle interferometry. Recently introduced imaging techniques give one the ability to reconstruct source functions from the correlation data in a model independent way. We explore the applicability of two-proton imaging to realistic sources with transverse space-momentum correlations. We find that the proton images are very sensitive to these correlations. We show that one can reliably reconstruct the source functions from the two-proton correlation functions, regardless of the degree of the space-momentum correlations.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9906022,
title = {Imaging proton sources and space-momentum correlations},
author = {S. Y. Panitkin and D. A. Brown},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9906022},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, RevTex, minor corrections. Improved discussion of constructing source in model and minor figure correction. To appear Phys. Rev. C