Multi-boson effects and the normalization of the two-pion correlation function
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The two-pion correlation function can be defined as a ratio of either the measured momentum distributions or the normalized momentum space probabilities. We show that the first alternative avoids certain ambiguities since then the normalization of the two-pion correlator contains important information on the multiplicity distribution of the event ensemble which is lost in the second alternative. We illustrate this explicitly for specific classes of event ensembles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9805046,
title = {Multi-boson effects and the normalization of the two-pion correlation function},
author = {Q. H. Zhang and P. Scotto and U. Heinz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9805046},
year = {2008}
}
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6 pages, three figures,submit to PRC