FEMTOSCOPY IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLISIONS: Two Decades of Progress

2005/05/31 by Mike Lisa, M. A. Lisa, Scott Pratt +4 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Context (archaeology) #Formalism (music) #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.55.090704.151533

published as Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.55:357-402,2005 · 49 pages, 16 figures; to appear in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science; final version includes minor updates in text, a few references added, and two figures updated; Figures and numerical data tables available at http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~lisa/FemtoscopyReview2005/

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Abstract

▪ Abstract Analyses of two-particle correlations have provided the chief means for determining spatio-temporal characteristics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We discuss the theoretical formalism behind these studies and the experimental methods used in carrying them out. Recent results from RHIC are put into context in a systematic review of correlation measurements performed over the past two decades. The current understanding of these results is discussed in terms of model comparisons and overall trends.

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