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We review the status of particle interferometry in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The theoretical focus is on the model-independent space-time interpretation of HBT radius parameters and its extension to the geometrical and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Tomasik , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Recent observations of QGP-like phenomena in small collision systems like p+p and p+A collisions have questioned our understanding of the basic paradigms of high energy heavy-ion physics. A brief discussion of these new aspects in small…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-02-28 Debasish Das

For a set of N identical massive boson wavepackets with optimal initial quantum mechanical localization, we calculate the Hanbury-Brown/Twiss (HBT) two-particle correlation function. Our result provides an algorithm for calculating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. A. Wiedemann , P. Foka , H. Kalechofsky , M. Martin , C. Slotta , Q. H. Zhang

In the late stage of the evolution of a pion system in high-energy heavy-ion collisions when pions undergo multiple scatterings, the quantum transport of the interfering pair of identical pions plays an important role in determining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Li-Li Yu , Wei-Ning Zhang , Cheuk-Yin Wong

Identical boson Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry as applied to relativistic heavy-ion collisions is reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the use of hadronic scattering models to interpret the physical significance of experimental results.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas J. Humanic

Using the technique of quantum transport of the interfering pair we examine the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry signatures for the particle-emitting sources of pions and kaons produced in the heavy ion collisions at GSI-FAIR…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Li-Li Yu , M. J. Efaaf , Yan-Yu Ren , Wei-Ning Zhang

We use a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model to study multi-pion and multi-kaon Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for the partially coherent particle-emitting sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A density-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Shi-Yao Wang , Jun-Ting Ye , Wei-Ning Zhang

The Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskii (YKP) parametrisation of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) two-particle correlation functions opens new strategies for extracting the emission duration and testing the longitudinal expansion in heavy-ion collisions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Y. -F. Wu , U. Heinz , B. Tomasik , U. A. Wiedemann

I will present a review of the field of Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The "HBT puzzle" is explored in detail, emphasizing recent theoretical attempts to understand the persisting puzzle. I also…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-23 Dan Magestro

In this paper, we continue our phenomenological studies of heavy-ion collisions using 3+1d anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro). In previous works, we compared quasiparticle aHydro (aHydroQP) with ALICE 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and RHIC 200 GeV Au-Au…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-03 Mubarak Alqahtani , Michael Strickland

Using one- and two-body density matrices, we calculate the spatial and momentum distributions, two-particle Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) correlation functions, and the chaotic parameter $\lambda$ in HBT interferometry for the systems of boson…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-20 Jie Liu , Peng Ru , Wei-Ning Zhang , Cheuk-Yin Wong

The two particle interferometry method to determine the size of the emitting source after a heavy ion collision is extended. Following the extension of the method to spherical expansion dynamics, here we extend the method to rotating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 S. Velle , S. Mehrabi Pari , L. P. Csernai

Elliptic flow and HBT are studied for non-central relativistic nuclear collisions. Azimuthal asymmetries show up in both elliptic flow and HBT radii and are calculated in both collisionless and hydrodynamic limits relevant for peripheral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 H. Heiselberg , A. Levy

Two-pion Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for p+p and central Pb+Pb collisions at the Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) energies are investigated with the ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model combined with a correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Qingfeng Li , Gunnar Graef , Marcus Bleicher

The beam energy dependence of correlation lengths (the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss radii) is calculated by using a blast-wave model and the results are comparable with those from RHIC-STAR beam energy scan data as well as the LHC-ALICE…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-12 S. Zhang , Y. G. Ma , J. H. Chen , C. Zhong

An important tool in studying the sub-femtoscale spacetime structure of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry of identical particles in the final state of such collisions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 James Daniel Brandenburg , Haowu Duan , Zhoudunming Tu , Raju Venugopalan , Zhangbu Xu

We discuss symmetry constraints on the azimuthal oscillations of two-particle correlation (Hanbury Brown--Twiss interferometry) radii for non-central collisions between equal spherical nuclei. We also propose a new method for correcting in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 U. W. Heinz , A. Hummel , M. A. Lisa , U. A. Wiedemann

We investigate pion source sizes through the Yano-Koonin-Podgoretski\u{\i} (YKP) parametrization for the Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) effect in the CERN-SPS 158 GeV/A central collisions. We calculate two-particle correlation functions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Morita , S. Muroya , H. Nakamura , C. Nonaka

We used an Isospin dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics (IQMD) model to simulate Au + Au collisions at beam energy $E_{beam}$ = 1.23$A$ GeV, which corresponds to center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV. Firstly, we obtained…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-10 Ling-Meng Fang , Yu-Gang Ma , Song Zhang

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect is the foundation for stellar intensity interferometry. However, it is a phase insensitive two-photon interference effect. In this paper, we extend the HBT interferometer by mixing two phase-coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Xuan Tang , Yunxiao Zhang , Xueshi Guo , Liang Cui , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou