Measuring velocity ratios with correlation functions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-06 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We show how to determine the ratio of the transverse velocity of a source to the velocity of emitted particles, using split-bin correlation functions. The technique is to measure and , subtract the contributions from the single-particle distribution, and take the ratio as the bin size goes to zero. We demonstrate the technique for two cases: each source decays into two particles, and each source emits a large number of particles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9301224,
title = {Measuring velocity ratios with correlation functions},
author = {David Seibert and Kevin Haglin and Charles Gale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9301224},
year = {2010}
}
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9 pages, LaTeX, 2 PostScript figures