Published September 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Selected results on strong and coulomb-induced correlations from the STAR experiment

Creators

  • 1. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Rez (Czech Republic). Nuclear Physics Institute

Description

Using recent high-statistics STAR data from Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions at full RHIC energy I discuss strong and Coulomb-induced final state interaction effects on identical (pi-pi) and non-identical (pi-XI) particle correlations. Analysis of pi-XI correlations reveals the strong and Coulomb-induced FSI effects, allowing for the first time to estimate spatial extension of pi and XI sources and the average shift between them. Source imaging techniques provide clean separation of details of the source function and are applied to the one-dimensional relative momentum correlation function of identical pions. For low momentum pions, and/or non-central collisions, a large departure from a single-Gaussian shape is observed. (author)

Availability note (English)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Brazilian Journal of Physics
Journal Volume
37
Journal Issue
3A
Journal Page Range
p. 925-932
ISSN
0103-9733
CODEN
BJPHE6

Conference

Title
2. Workshop on particle correlations and femtoscopy
Acronym
WPCF 2006
Dates
9-11 Sep 2006
Place
Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil)

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Notes
37 refs., 11 figs.