Transverse momentum dependence of bose-einstein correlations in 200A GeV/c S+A collisions

Th Alber, J. Bächler, J. Bartke, H. Bialkowska, M. A. Bloomer, R. Bock, W. J. Braithwaite, D. Brinkmann, R. Brockmann, P. Bunčić, P. Chan, P. B. Cramer, J. G. Cramer, I. Derado, V. Eckardt, J. Eschke, C. Favuzzi, D. Ferenc, B. Fleischmann, P. FokaP. Freund, M. Fuchs, M. Gadzicki, E. Gladysz, J. W. Harris, M. Hoffman, P. Jacobs, S. Kabana, K. Kadija, J. Kosiec, M. Kowalski, A. Kühmichel, M. Lahanas, J. Y. Lee, A. Ljubičić, S. Margetis, J. T. Mitchell, R. J. Morse, E. Nappi, G. Odyniec, G. Paić, A. D. Panagiotou, A. Petridis, A. Piper, F. Posa, A. M. Poskanzer, F. Pühlhofer, W. Rauch, R. Renfordt, W. Retyk, D. Röhrich, G. Roland, H. Rothard, K. Runge, A. Sandoval, J. Schambach, N. Schmitz, E. Schmoetten, I. Schneider, P. Seyboth, J. Seyerlein, E. Skrzypczak, P. Spinelli, P. Stefansky, R. Stock, H. Ströbele, T. A. Trainor, G. Vasileiadis, M. Vassiliou, D. Vranic, S. Wenig, B. Wosiek

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Abstract

The NA35 experiment has collected a high statistics set of momentum analyzed negative hadrons near and forward of midrapidity for central collisions of 200AGeV/c S32+S, Cu, Ag, and Au. Using momentum space correlations to study the size of the source of particle production, the transverse source radii are found to decrease by 40% at midrapidity and 20% at forward rapidity while the longitudinal radius RL is found to decrease by 50% as pT increases over the interval 50<pT<600MeV/c. Calculations using a microscopic phase space approach (relativistic quantum molecular dynamics) reproduce the observed trends of the data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1303-1306
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume74
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1995
Externally publishedYes

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