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Rapidity dependence of HBT correlation radii in non-boost invariant models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) correlation measurements provide valuable information about the phase space distribution of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The rapidity dependence of HBT radii arises from a nontrivial interplay between longitudinal and transverse expansion and the time dependence of the freeze-out pattern. For a non-accelerating longitudinal expansion the dependence primarily arises from the amount of radiating matter per unit rapidity dN/dηdN/d\eta, but for a scenario with strong longitudinal acceleration additional complications occur. In this paper I explore schematically what type of dependence can be expected for RHIC conditions under different model assumptions for the dynamics of spacetime expansion and freeze-out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0509053,
  title  = {Rapidity dependence of HBT correlation radii in non-boost invariant models},
  author = {Thorsten Renk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0509053},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Talk at the Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, August 15-17, 2005