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Interpreting BEC in e+e- annihilation

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-05-22 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

The usual interpretation of Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) of identical boson pairs relates the width of the peak in the correlation function at small relative four-momentum to the spatial extent of the source of the bosons. However, in the tau-model, which successfully describes BEC in hadronic Z decay, the width of the peak is related to the temporal extent of boson emission. Some new checks on the validity of both the tau-model and the usual descriptions are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1811.10237,
  title  = {Interpreting BEC in e+e- annihilation},
  author = {W. J. Metzger and T. Csörgő and T. Novák and S. Lökös},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10237},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Talk given at XLVIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Singapore, 3-7 Sep. 2018. To appear in the proceedings