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Three particle L\'evy HBT from PHENIX

Nuclear Experiment 2020-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Bose-Einstein correlations of identical bosons reveal information about the space-time structure of particle emission from the sQGP formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Previous measurements of two particle correlations have shown that the source can best be described by a symmetric Levy distribution. Here we report on the measurement of three-particle correlations in 0-30 % centrality Au+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{_\text{NN}}} = 200 GeV, and describe them with a Levy type source. This measurement may shed light on hadron creation mechanisms beyond chaotic emission. We measure three particle correlation strength (λ3\lambda_3) as a function of pair transverse momentum. This parameter, combined with two-particle correlation strength λ2\lambda_2 may reveal the level of chaoticity and coherence in particle production.

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@article{arxiv.1910.05019,
  title  = {Three particle L\'evy HBT from PHENIX},
  author = {Bálint Kurgyis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05019},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, Presented at XIV Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, 3-7 June 2019, Dubna, Russian Federation

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