TY - JOUR
T1 - Pion interferometry with pion-source-medium interactions
AU - Chu, M. C.
AU - Gardner, S.
AU - Matsui, T.
AU - Seki, R.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - An extended pion source, which can be temporarily created by a high energy nuclear collision, will also absorb and distort the outgoing pions. We discuss how this effect alters the interferometric pattern of the two-pion momentum correlation function. In particular, we show that the two-pion correlation function decreases rapidly when the opening angle between the pions increases. The opening-angle dependence should serve as a new means of obtaining information about the pion source in the analysis of experimental data.
AB - An extended pion source, which can be temporarily created by a high energy nuclear collision, will also absorb and distort the outgoing pions. We discuss how this effect alters the interferometric pattern of the two-pion momentum correlation function. In particular, we show that the two-pion correlation function decreases rapidly when the opening angle between the pions increases. The opening-angle dependence should serve as a new means of obtaining information about the pion source in the analysis of experimental data.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevC.50.3079
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevC.50.3079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000280231
SN - 0556-2813
VL - 50
SP - 3079
EP - 3087
JO - Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
JF - Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
IS - 6
ER -