Implications of the unusual structure in the pp correlation from Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-31 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The recent NA49 measurement of two-proton correlation function shows an interesting and unexpected structure at large relative momentum. Applying source imaging techniques to the measurement, we find an unusually steep drop-off in the two-proton source function. We show that the steep drop-off is due to the structure in the correlation and the drop-off cannot be explained using conventional correlation analysis. We suggest possible physics reasons for the unusual source function.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9908033,
title = {Implications of the unusual structure in the pp correlation from Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV},
author = {David A. Brown and Fuqiang Wang and Pawel Danielewicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9908033},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 eps figures, uses RevTex.sty. To appear in Physics Letters B. Updated 10/26/99 with cleaner figures and added discussions of analysis done in nucl-ex/9905001 and of imaging