QUANTUM CORRELATIONS OF BOSONS AND FERMIONS PRODUCED IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

A quantum statistical approach to simulate Bose-Einstein correlations of many boson systems is presented. The extension to fermions and Coul omb-interacting bosons is discussed. This approach appears to be very efficient and is applicable also to cases with very high multiplicitie s. A technique to analyze pion correlations via their counting distrib utions is developed. The exact counting distributions for bosons as we ll as for fermions are derived. The problem of incomplete data occurin g in detectors with an acceptance angle Omega < 4 pi is studied. The a pplication to Monte Carlo generated pion distributions show that this technique offers a valuable supplement to the usual Hanbury-Brown, Twi ss method.