PION INTERFEREMETRY FROM P+P TO AU+AU IN STAR
Description
The geometric substructure of the particle-emitting source has been characterized via two-particle interferometry by the STAR collaboration for all energies and colliding systems at RHIC. We present systematic studies of charged pion interferometry. The collective nature of the source is revealed through the mT dependence of HBT radii for all particle types. Preliminary results suggest a scaling in the pion HBT radii with overall system size, as central Au+Au collisions are compared to peripheral collisions as well as with Cu+Cu and even with d+Au and p+p collisions, naively suggesting comparable flow strength in all systems. To probe this issue in greater detail, multidimensional correlation functions are studied using a spherical decomposition method. This allows clear identification of source anisotropy and, for the light systems, the presence of significant long-range non-femtoscopic correlations
Availability note (English)
Available from OSTI as DE00876639; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/876639-PlwXCd/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 6 p.
- Report number
- BNL--75440-2006-CP
Conference
- Title
- Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF 2005)
- Dates
- 15-17 Aug 2005
- Place
- Kromeriz (Czech Republic)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 37057450
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; BROOKHAVEN RHIC; COLLIDING BEAMS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; GOLD 197 BEAMS; GOLD 197 REACTIONS; GOLD 197 TARGET; INTERFEROMETRY; PERIPHERAL COLLISIONS; PIONS; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BEAMS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FUNCTIONS; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; HADRONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; ION BEAMS; MESONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; STORAGE RINGS; STRONG INTERACTIONS; TARGETS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- KB-02-01; AC--02-98CH10886
- Collaborations
- THE STAR COLLABORATION
- Funding organization
- DOE/SC (United States)