1. Proton-Proton Correlations in Central Collisions of Ni+Ni at 1.93 A GeV and the Space-Time Extent of the Emission Source
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Siwek-Wilczynska, K., Somov, A., Sodan, U., Seres, Z., Simion, V., Sikora, B., Roy, C., Ritman, J. L., Reisdorf, W., Rami, F., Pras, P., Merlitz, H., Pinkenburg, C., Petrovici, M., Pelte, D., Mohren, S., Tizniti, L., Biegansky, J., Kotte, Roland, Best, D., Buta, A., Maazouzi, C., Leifels, Y., Legrand, I., Lebedev, A., Kuhn, C., Caplar, R., Hong, B., Cindro, N., Berek, G., Belyaev, I., Bastid, N., Basrak, Z., Amouroux, V., Alard, J. P., Jundt, F., Hölbling, S., Fodor, Z., Hildenbrand, K. D., Herrmann, N., Häfele, E., Guillaume, G., Gobbi, A., Göbels, G., Manko, V., Fraysse, L., Kecskemeti, J., Fintz, P., Eskef, M., Dzelalija, M., Dupieux, P., Dona, R., Crochet, P., Coffin, J. P., Genoux-Lubain, A., Wienold, T., Wohlfarth, Dietrich, Trzaska, M., Plettner, Christoph, Zhilin, A., Schüll, D., Yatsunenko, Y., Kirejczyk, M., Wang, G. S., Mösner, Jürgen, Vasiliev, M. A., Neubert, W., Korolija, M., Wagner, P., Siwek-Wilczynska, K., Somov, A., Sodan, U., Seres, Z., Simion, V., Sikora, B., Roy, C., Ritman, J. L., Reisdorf, W., Rami, F., Pras, P., Merlitz, H., Pinkenburg, C., Petrovici, M., Pelte, D., Mohren, S., Tizniti, L., Biegansky, J., Kotte, Roland, Best, D., Buta, A., Maazouzi, C., Leifels, Y., Legrand, I., Lebedev, A., Kuhn, C., Caplar, R., Hong, B., Cindro, N., Berek, G., Belyaev, I., Bastid, N., Basrak, Z., Amouroux, V., Alard, J. P., Jundt, F., Hölbling, S., Fodor, Z., Hildenbrand, K. D., Herrmann, N., Häfele, E., Guillaume, G., Gobbi, A., Göbels, G., Manko, V., Fraysse, L., Kecskemeti, J., Fintz, P., Eskef, M., Dzelalija, M., Dupieux, P., Dona, R., Crochet, P., Coffin, J. P., Genoux-Lubain, A., Wienold, T., Wohlfarth, Dietrich, Trzaska, M., Plettner, Christoph, Zhilin, A., Schüll, D., Yatsunenko, Y., Kirejczyk, M., Wang, G. S., Mösner, Jürgen, Vasiliev, M. A., Neubert, W., Korolija, M., and Wagner, P.
- Abstract
Small-angle correlations of Proton pairs produced in central Ni+Ni collisions at a beam energy of 1.93 AGeV are investigated with the FOPI detector System at GSI Darmstadt. A well-defined emission source is selected by triggering on central events which comprise about 8% of the total cross section. Simultaneous comparison of longitudinal and transverse correlation functions with the predictions of the Koonin model allows to unravel the space-time ambiguity of the emission process. Taking into account the strong collactive expansion of the participant zone, which introduces a reduction of the extracted source radius of more than 30% r.m.s. radius and emission time parameters of Rrms = ( 4.2 ± 1.2) fm and trms = (11+7-5) fm/c are extracted, respectively. In contrast, the analysis of the angle-integrated correlation function gives an upper limit Rrms = (7.0 ± 1.4) fm of the source radius.
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- 2010