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The European Physical Journal C
ISSN: 1434-6044 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6052 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 1 Issue 3/4 (1998) pp 599-617
theoretical physics:
Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskii parametrisation of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlator
Y.-F. Wu (1) (*), U. Heinz (1)(2), B. Tomásik (1), U.A. Wiedemann (1)
(1) Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
(2) CERN/TH, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
Received: 14 March 1997 / Revised version: 2 June 1997
The Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskii (YKP) parametrisation of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) two-particle correlation functions opens new strategies for extracting the emission duration and testing the longitudinal expansion in heavy-ion collisions. Based on the recently derived model-independent expressions, we present a detailed parameter study of the YKP parameters for a finite, hydrodynamically expanding source model of heavy-ion collisions. For the class of models studied here, we show that the three YKP radius parameters have an interpretation as longitudinal extension, transverse extension and emission duration of the source in the YKP frame. This frame is specified by the fourth fit parameter, the Yano-Koonin velocity which describes to a good approximation the velocity of the fluid element with highest emissivity and allows to test for the longitudinal expansion of the source. Deviations from this interpretation of the YKP parameters are discussed quantitatively.
(*) On leave of absence from Institute of Particle Physics, Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Online publication: February 5, 1998
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