Reconstructing the Source in Heavy Ion Collisions from Particle Interferometry
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The preliminary CERN SPS NA49 Pb+Pb 158 GeV/A negative one- and two-particle spectra at mid-rapidity are consistent with a source of temperature 130 MeV, lifetime 9 fm/c, transverse flow 0.35, and a transverse geometric size which is twice as large as the cold Pb nucleus.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9801017,
title = {Reconstructing the Source in Heavy Ion Collisions from Particle Interferometry},
author = {Urs Achim Wiedemann and Boris Tomasik and Ulrich Heinz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9801017},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Proceedings for Quark Matter 97; 4 pages, 2 eps-figures