RECONSTRUCTING THE SOURCE IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS FROM PARTICLE INTERFEROMETRY

Authors
WIEDEMANN UA TOMASIK B HEINZ U
Citation
Ua. Wiedemann et al., RECONSTRUCTING THE SOURCE IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS FROM PARTICLE INTERFEROMETRY, Nuclear physics. A, 638(1-2), 1998, pp. 475-478
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
638
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
475 - 478
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1998)638:1-2<475:RTSIHC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The preliminary CERN SPS NA49 Pb+Pb 158 GeV/A one- and two-particle h( -)-spectra at mid-rapidity are consistent with a source of temperature T approximate to 130 MeV, lifetime tau(0) approximate to 9 fm/c, tran sverse flow eta(f) approximate to 0.35, and a transverse geometric siz e which is twice as large as the cold Pb nucleus.