Particle-particle correlation functions at small correlation angle have bee
n measured for Ar-40 + Nb-93 collision at E = 25MeV/u. Based on three-body
trajectory calculation the emission time scale of light particles has been
extracted from correlation function of two particles at small relative mome
ntum. The mean emission time scale decreases with increasing sum of the kin
etic energies of the particles in a correlated pair. It decreases from abou
t 500 fm/c for low energy particles to about 50 fm/c for high-energy partic
les. And the extracted emission time scales from larger detection angle are
longer than that extracted from the data obtained at small detection angle
, which can be explained as the more particles emitted from equilibrated sy
stem.