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Small size boundary effects on two-pion interferometry

Nuclear Theory 2009-10-31 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The Bose-Einstein correlations of two identically charged pions are derived when these particles, the most abundantly produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, are confined in finite volumes. Boundary effects on single pion spectrum are also studied. Numerical results emphasize that conventional formulation usually adopted to describe two-pion interferometry should not be used when the source size is small, since this is the most sensitive case to boundary effects. Specific examples are considered for better illustration.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9910035,
  title  = {Small size boundary effects on two-pion interferometry},
  author = {Q. H. Zhang and Sandra S. Padula},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9910035},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

more discussion on Figure4 and diffuse boundary