Recent Femtoscopy Results from NA49: Evidence for a Non-Gaussian Tail in the 3-Dimensional Two-Pion Emission Source at SPS



Document title: Recent Femtoscopy Results from NA49: Evidence for a Non-Gaussian Tail in the 3-Dimensional Two-Pion Emission Source at SPS
Journal: Brazilian journal of physics
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000403244
ISSN: 0103-9733
Authors: 1
2
Institutions: 1Stony Brook University, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook, Nueva York. Estados Unidos de América
2Michigan State University, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan. Estados Unidos de América
Year:
Season: Sep
Volumen: 37
Number: 3A
Pages: 986-993
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico
English abstract The NA49 experiment at CERN SPS has acquired a huge data set of Pb+Pb events over a broad range of energy and centrality during the last several years. This high statistics data set, coupled with a state-of-the-art analysis technique, allows for the first model-independent extraction and energy scan of 3D emission sources for pion pairs at SPS energies. These 3D two-pion emission sources provide new insights into the nature of a long-range source previously reported by PHENIX at RHIC. The new results indicate that the two-pion source function is essentially Gaussian from 20 AGeV to 80 AGeV but it displays significant non-Gaussian tails at 158 AGeV
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Física nuclear,
Interferometría,
Piones,
Colisiones,
Iones pesados
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Nuclear physics,
Interferometry,
Pions,
Collisions,
Heavy ions
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