Reconstructing the source in heavy ion collisions from particle interferometry

✍ Scribed by Urs Achim Wiedemann; Boris Tomášik; Ulrich Heinz

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 638
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(98)00391-1

✦ Synopsis

The preliminary CERN SPS NA49 Pb+Pb 158 GeV/A one-and two-particle h--spectra at mid-rapidity are consistent with a source of temperature T ~ 130 MeV, lifetime To ~ 9 fro/c, transverse flow r/f ~ 0.35, and a transverse geometric size which is twice as large as the cold Pb nucleus.