1. Central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c studied by π−π− interferometry
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Aggarwal, M.M., Agnihotri, A., Ahammed, Z., Angelis, A.L.S., Antonenko, V., Arefev, V., Astakhov, V., Avdeitchikov, V., Awes, T.C., Baba, P.V.K.S., Badyal, S.K., Barlag, C., Bathe, S., Batiounia, B., Bernier, T., Bhalla, K.B., Bhatia, V.S., Blume, C., Bock, R., Bohne, E.M., Borocz, Z., Bucher, D., Buijs, A., Busching, H., Carlen, L., Chalyshev, V., Chattopadhyay, S., Cherbatchev, R., Chujo, T., Claussen, A., Das, A.C., Decowski, M.P., Delagrange, H., Djordjadze, V., Donni, P., Doubovik, I., Dutt, S., Dutta Majumdar, M.R., El Chenawi, K., Eliseev, S., Enosawa, K., Foka, P., Fokin, S., Ganti, M.S., Garpman, S., Gavrishchuk, O., Geurts, F.J.M., Ghosh, T.K., Glasow, R., Gupta, S.K., Guskov, B., Gustafsson, H.A., Gutbrod, H.H., Higuchi, R., Hrivnacova, I., Ippolitov, M., Kalechofsky, H., Kamermans, R., Kampert, K.H., Karadjev, K., Karpio, K., Kato, S., Kees, S., Klein-Boesing, Christian, Knoche, S., Kolb, B.W., Kosarev, I., Koutcheryaev, I., Krumpel, T., Kugler, A., Kulinich, P., Kurata, M., Kurita, K., Kuzmin, N., Langbein, I., Lebedev, A., Lee, Y.Y., Lohner, H., Luquin, L., Mahapatra, D.P., Manko, V., Martin, M., Martinez, G., Maximov, A., Mgebrichvili, G., Miake, Y., Mir, M.F., Mishra, G.C., Miyamoto, Y., Mohanty, B., Morrison, Douglas R.O., Mukhopadhyay, D.S., Naef, H., Nandi, B.K., Nayak, S.K., Nayak, T.K., Neumaier, S., Nianine, A., Nikitine, V., Nikolaev, S., Nilsson, P., Nishimura, S., Nomokonov, P., Nystrand, J., Obenshain, F.E., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Pachr, M., Pavliouk, S., Peitzmann, T., Petracek, V., Pinganaud, W., Plasil, F., von Poblotzki, U., Purschke, M.L., Rak, J., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ramamurthy, V.S., Rao, N.K., Retiere, F., Reygers, K., Roland, G., Rosselet, L., Roufanov, I., Roy, C., Rubio, J.M., Sako, H., Sambyal, S.S., Santo, R., Sato, S., Schlagheck, H., Schmidt, H.R., Schutz, Y., Shabratova, G., Shah, T.H., Sibiriak, I., Siemiarczuk, T., Silvermyr, D., Sinha, B.C., Slavine, N., Soderstrom, K., Solomey, N., Sorensen, S.P., Stankus, P., Stefanek, G., Steinberg, P., Stenlund, E., Stuken, D., Sumbera, M., Svensson, T., Trivedi, M.D., Tsvetkov, A., Tykarski, L., Urbahn, J., van de Pijll, E.C., van Eijndhoven, N., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vinogradov, A., Viyogi, Y.P., Vodopianov, A.S., Voros, S., Wyslouch, B., Yagi, K., Yokota, Y., and Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics
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Particle physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Gaussian ,FOS: Physical sciences ,HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,symbols.namesake ,TRACKING ,Pion ,SYSTEMS ,Invariant (mathematics) ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,MULTISTEP AVALANCHE CHAMBERS ,PION INTERFEROMETRY ,Physics ,Resolution (electron density) ,Function (mathematics) ,2-PION CORRELATIONS ,PERFORMANCE ,READOUT ,Exponential function ,Interferometry ,Cross term ,symbols ,PB+PB COLLISIONS ,Particle Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Two-particle correlations have been measured for identified negative pions from central 158 AGeV Pb+Pb collisions and fitted radii of about 7 fm in all dimensions have been obtained. A multi-dimensional study of the radii as a function of kT is presented, including a full correction for the resolution effects of the apparatus. The cross term Rout-long of the standard fit in the Longitudinally CoMoving System (LCMS) and the vl parameter of the generalised Yano-Koonin fit are compatible with 0, suggesting that the source undergoes a boost invariant expansion. The shapes of the correlation functions in Qinv and Qspace have been analyzed in detail. They are not Gaussian but better represented by exponentials. As a consequence, fitting Gaussians to these correlation functions may produce different radii depending on the acceptance of the experimental setup used for the measurement., 13 pages including 10 figures
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- 2000