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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1303-1306 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |