M. Korolija et al., PROTON-PROTON CORRELATIONS - DETERMINATION OF THE SOURCE SIZE AND LIFETIME FROM DEEP-INELASTIC COLLISIONS OF NI-58-58 15 MEV(NI)NUCLEON/, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 49(1), 1994, pp. 272-278
Triple (p-p-fragment) coincidences from the Ni-58+Ni-58 reaction at 85
0 MeV have been measured. By detecting the source of the emitted parti
cles we were able to study the directional dependence of the p-p corre
lation function. From this dependence both the source size (r(0)) and
the particle emission time (tau) have been extracted. The extracted p-
p correlation functions could be fitted with source size and lifetime
in the range of 3.3(-0.7)(+1.3)fm and 3.2(-2.2)(+1.3)X10(-22) s, respe
ctively.