Bose-Einstein correlations and the transition time from QCD plasma to hadrons

2012/10/07 by A. Bialas, A. Białas, Bialas, A. +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.2040

eight pages, LateX, no figures

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Abstract

It is pointed out that the size of the interaction region, as determined from HBT analyses, is increased due to the transition time necessary the convert the quarks and gluons into hadrons. A rough estimate yields an increase of R_HBT by about 15%.

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