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Mass Effects in Bose Einstein Correlations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Bose-Einstein symmetrization can lead to correlations between out going identical particles which reflect the space-time extent of the collision process. At LEP and LEPII these correlations have been studied as a function of a single variable Q, the invariant momentum separation. Assuming a simple form for the correlation function the experiments find source radii dependent on the hadron mass. In this note, I point out that such effects can arise from purely kinematic considerations, although these are unlikely to explain the observed effects completely.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912250,
  title  = {Mass Effects in Bose Einstein Correlations},
  author = {Mark Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912250},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, typeset with REVTeX