1. Centrality dependence of L\'evy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV Au$+$Au collisions
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PHENIX Collaboration, Abdulameer, N. J., Acharya, U., Adare, A., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N. N., Akiba, Y., Akimoto, R., Al-Ta'ani, H., Alexander, J., Angerami, A., Aoki, K., Apadula, N., Aramaki, Y., Asano, H., Aschenauer, E. C., Atomssa, E. T., Awes, T. C., Azmoun, B., Babintsev, V., Bai, M., Bannier, B., Barish, K. N., Bassalleck, B., Bathe, S., Baublis, V., Baumgart, S., Bazilevsky, A., Belmont, R., Berdnikov, A., Berdnikov, Y., Bichon, L., Blankenship, B., Blau, D. S., Bok, J. S., Borisov, V., Boyle, K., Brooks, M. L., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Butsyk, S., Campbell, S., Castera, P., Chen, C. -H., Chen, D., Chiu, M., Chi, C. Y., Choi, I. J., Choi, J. B., Choi, S., Choudhury, R. K., Christiansen, P., Chujo, T., Chvala, O., Cianciolo, V., Citron, Z., Cole, B. A., Connors, M., Corliss, R., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., D'Orazio, L., Dairaku, S., Datta, A., Daugherity, M. S., David, G., Denisov, A., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E. J., Dharmawardane, K. V., Dietzsch, O., Ding, L., Dion, A., Donadelli, M., Doomra, V., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Drees, K. A., Durham, J. M., Durum, A., Edwards, S., Efremenko, Y. V., Engelmore, T., Enokizono, A., Esha, R., Eyser, K. O., Fadem, B., Fields, D. E., Finger, Jr., M., Finger, M., Firak, D., Fitzgerald, D., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S. L., Frantz, J. E., Franz, A., Frawley, A. D., Fukao, Y., Fusayasu, T., Gainey, K., Gal, C., Garishvili, A., Garishvili, I., Glenn, A., Gong, X., Gonin, M., Goto, Y., de Cassagnac, R. Granier, Grau, N., Greene, S. V., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Gunji, T., Guo, L., Guo, T., Gustafsson, H. -Å., Hachiya, T., Haggerty, J. S., Hahn, K. I., Hamagaki, H., Hanks, J., Hashimoto, K., Haslum, E., Hayano, R., Hemmick, T. K., Hester, T., He, X., Hill, J. C., Hodges, A., Hollis, R. S., Homma, K., Hong, B., Horaguchi, T., Hori, Y., Ichihara, T., Iinuma, H., Ikeda, Y., Imrek, J., Inaba, M., Iordanova, A., Isenhower, D., Issah, M., Ivanishchev, D., Jacak, B. V., Javani, M., Jiang, X., Ji, Z., Johnson, B. M., Joo, K. S., Jouan, D., Jumper, D. S., Kamin, J., Kaneti, S., Kang, B. H., Kang, J. H., Kang, J. S., Kapustinsky, J., Karatsu, K., Kasai, M., Kasza, G., Kawall, D., Kazantsev, A. V., Kempel, T., Khanzadeev, A., Kijima, K. M., Kim, B. I., Kim, C., Kim, D. J., Kim, E. -J., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. -B., Kim, Y. -J., Kim, Y. K., Kinney, E., Kiss, Á., Kistenev, E., Klatsky, J., Kleinjan, D., Kline, P., Komatsu, Y., Komkov, B., Koster, J., Kotchetkov, D., Kotov, D., Kovacs, L., Krizek, F., Král, A., Kunde, G. J., Kurgyis, B., Kurita, K., Kurosawa, M., Kwon, Y., Kyle, G. S., Lai, Y. S., Lajoie, J. G., Lebedev, A., Lee, B., Lee, D. M., Lee, J., Lee, K. B., Lee, K. S., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. R., Leitch, M. J., Leite, M. A. L., Leitgab, M., Lewis, B., Lim, S. H., Levy, L. A. Linden, Liu, M. X., Lökös, S., Loomis, D. A., Love, B., Maguire, C. F., Makdisi, Y. I., Makek, M., Manion, A., Manko, V. I., Mannel, E., Masumoto, S., McCumber, M., McGaughey, P. L., McGlinchey, D., McKinney, C., Mendoza, M., Meredith, B., Miake, Y., Mibe, T., Mignerey, A. C., Milov, A., Mishra, D. K., Mitchell, J. T., Mitrankova, M., Mitrankov, Iu., Miyachi, Y., Miyasaka, S., Mohanty, A. K., Mohapatra, S., Moon, H. J., Morrison, D. P., Motschwiller, S., Moukhanova, T. V., Mulilo, B., Murakami, T., Murata, J., Mwai, A., Nagae, T., Nagamiya, S., Nagle, J. L., Nagy, M. I., Nakagawa, I., Nakamiya, Y., Nakamura, K. R., Nakamura, T., Nakano, K., Nattrass, C., Nederlof, A., Nihashi, M., Nouicer, R., Novák, T., Novitzky, N., Nukazuka, G., Nyanin, A. S., O'Brien, E., Ogilvie, C. A., Okada, K., Orosz, M., Oskarsson, A., Ouchida, M., Ozawa, K., Pak, R., Pantuev, V., Papavassiliou, V., Park, B. H., Park, I. H., Park, J. S., Park, S., Park, S. K., Patel, L., Pate, S. F., Pei, H., Peng, J. -C., Pereira, H., Peressounko, D. Yu., Petti, R., Pinkenburg, C., Pisani, R. P., Potekhin, M., Proissl, M., Purschke, M. L., Qu, H., Rak, J., Ravinovich, I., Read, K. F., Reynolds, D., Riabov, V., Riabov, Y., Richardson, E., Richford, D., Roach, D., Roche, G., Rolnick, S. D., Rosati, M., Sahlmueller, B., Saito, N., Sakaguchi, T., Samsonov, V., Sano, M., Sarsour, M., Sawada, S., Sedgwick, K., Seidl, R., Sen, A., Seto, R., Sharma, D., Shein, I., Shibata, T. -A., Shigaki, K., Shimomura, M., Shoji, K., Shukla, P., Sickles, A., Silva, C. L., Silvermyr, D., Sim, K. S., Singh, B. K., Singh, C. P., Singh, V., Slunečka, M., Smith, K. L., Soltz, R. A., Sondheim, W. E., Sorensen, S. P., Sourikova, I. V., Stankus, P. W., Stenlund, E., Stepanov, M., Ster, A., Stoll, S. P., Sugitate, T., Sukhanov, A., Sun, J., Sun, Z., Sziklai, J., Takagui, E. M., Takahara, A., Taketani, A., Tanaka, Y., Taneja, S., Tanida, K., Tannenbaum, M. J., Tarafdar, S., Taranenko, A., Tennant, E., Themann, H., Todoroki, T., Tomášek, L., Tomášek, M., Torii, H., Towell, R. S., Tserruya, I., Tsuchimoto, Y., Tsuji, T., Ujvari, B., Vale, C., van Hecke, H. W., Vargyas, M., Vazquez-Zambrano, E., Veicht, A., Velkovska, J., Virius, M., Vossen, A., Vrba, V., Vznuzdaev, E., Vértesi, R., Wang, X. R., Watanabe, D., Watanabe, K., Watanabe, Y., Watanabe, Y. S., Wei, F., Wei, R., White, S. N., Winter, D., Wolin, S., Woody, C. L., Wysocki, M., Xia, B., Yamaguchi, Y. L., Yang, R., Yanovich, A., Ying, J., Yokkaichi, S., Younus, I., You, Z., Yushmanov, I. E., Zajc, W. A., and Zelenski, A.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The PHENIX experiment measured the centrality dependence of two-pion Bose-Einstein correlation functions in $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$~GeV Au$+$Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The data are well represented by L\'evy-stable source distributions. The extracted source parameters are the correlation-strength parameter $\lambda$, the L\'evy index of stability $\alpha$, and the L\'evy-scale parameter $R$ as a function of transverse mass $m_T$ and centrality. The $\lambda(m_T)$ parameter is constant at larger values of $m_T$, but decreases as $m_T$ decreases. The L\'evy scale parameter $R(m_T)$ decreases with $m_T$ and exhibits proportionality to the length scale of the nuclear overlap region. The L\'evy exponent $\alpha(m_T)$ is independent of $m_T$ within uncertainties in each investigated centrality bin, but shows a clear centrality dependence. At all centralities, the L\'evy exponent $\alpha$ is significantly different from that of Gaussian ($\alpha=2$) or Cauchy ($\alpha=1$) source distributions. Comparisons to the predictions of Monte-Carlo simulations of resonance-decay chains show that in all but the most peripheral centrality class (50%-60%), the obtained results are inconsistent with the measurements, unless a significant reduction of the in-medium mass of the $\eta'$ meson is included. In each centrality class, the best value of the in-medium $\eta'$ mass is compared to the mass of the $\eta$ meson, as well as to several theoretical predictions that consider restoration of $U_A(1)$ symmetry in hot hadronic matter., Comment: 401 authors from 75 institutions, 20 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. v1 is version submitted to Physical Review C. HEPdata tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
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- 2024