Exploring lifetime effects in femtoscopy

2007/05/09 by D. Brown, D. A. Brown, R. A. Soltz +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.76.044906

published as Phys.Rev.C76:044906,2007 · 5 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2007/05/09 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate the role of lifetime effects from resonances and emission duration tails in femtoscopy at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in two blast-wave models. We findthe non-Gaussian components compare well with published source imaged data, but the valueof R_out obtained from Gaussian fits is not insensitive to the non-Gaussian contributions when realistic acceptance cuts are applied to models.

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