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The Shape of the Correlation Function

Nuclear Theory 2020-12-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The correlation function measured in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions is non-Gaussian. By making use of models we discuss and assess how much various effects can influence its shape. In particular, we focus on the parametrisations expressed with the help of L\'evy-stable distributions. We show that the L\'evy index may deviate substantially from 2 due to non-critical effects such as non-spherical shape, resonance decays, event-by-event fluctuations and functional dependence on QinvQ_{inv} or similar.

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@article{arxiv.1909.00278,
  title  = {The Shape of the Correlation Function},
  author = {Jakub Cimerman and Boris Tomášik and Christopher Plumberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00278},
  year   = {2020}
}

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proceedings from the XIV Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, WPCF 2019, Dubna, Russia, June 3-7, 2019

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