Quantum Treatment of the Multiple Scattering and Collective Flow in Intensity Interferometry
Abstract
We apply the path-integral method to study the multiple scattering and collective flow in intensity interferometry in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We show that the Glauber model and eikonal approximation in an earlier quantum treatment are special examples of the more general path-integral method. The multiple scattering and collective flow lead essentially to an initial source at a shifted momentum, with a multiple collision absorption factor that depends on the pion absorption cross section and a phase factor that depends on the deviations of the in-medium particle momenta from their asymptotic values.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0510258,
title = {Quantum Treatment of the Multiple Scattering and Collective Flow in Intensity Interferometry},
author = {Cheuk-Yin Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0510258},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, in LaTex, to be published in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, August 15-17, 2005