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Sensitivity of HBT interferometry to the microscopic dynamics of freeze-out

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the HBT interferometry of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions using a freezeout model in which free pions emerge in the course of the last binary collisions in the hadron gas. We show that the HBT correlators of both identical and non-identical pions change with respect to the case of independent pion production. Practical consequences for the design of the event generator with the built in Bose-Einstein correlations are discussed. We argue that the scheme of inclusive measurement of the HBT correlation function does not require the symmetrization of the multi-pion transition amplitudes (wave-functions).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809278,
  title  = {Sensitivity of HBT interferometry to the microscopic dynamics of freeze-out},
  author = {A. Makhlin and E. Surdutovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809278},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, 3 epsf figures, RevTeX