A new Coulomb correction method for Bose-Einstein correlations, based on the π+π− correlation measurements

  • We present the measured correlation functions for pi+ pi-, pi- pi- and pi+ pi+ pairs in central S+Ag collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon. The Gamov function, which has been traditionally used to correct the correlation functions of charged pions for the Coulomb interaction, is found to be inconsistent with all measured correlation functions. Certain problems which have been dominating the systematic uncertainty of the correlation analysis are related to this inconsistency. It is demonstrated that a new Coulomb correction method, based exclusively on the measured correlation function for pi+ pi- pairs, may solve the problem.

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Author:Thomas Alber, Jerzy BartkeGND, Helena BiałkowskaORCiD, Matthew A. Bloomer, Rudolf BockGND, Wilfred J. Braithwaite, Dittmar Brinkmann, Robert Brockmann, Predrag Bunčić, Phaikying Chan, S. I. Chase, Pauline B. Cramer, John G. CramerGND, Ivan DeradoGND, Björn EberleinGND, Volker Eckardt, Jürgen Eschke, Daniel FerencORCiD, B. Fleischmann, Panagiota FokaORCiD, Peter Freund, Michael Fuchs, Ewa Gładysz-DziaduśORCiD, John W. HarrisORCiDGND, Matthias Hoffmann, Peter Martin JacobsORCiD, Sonia KabanaORCiD, Krešo Kadija, Jacek Kosiec, Marek Kowalski, Michael Lahanas, Jae-Yun Lee, Ante Jr. Ljubicic, Spyridon Margetis, Jeffery Thomas Mitchell, Richard J. Morse, Eugenio NappiGND, Grazyna Janina Odyniec, Guy Paic, Apostolos D. Panagiotou, Athanasios PetridisORCiD, Andreas Piper, Francesco Posa, Arthur M. PoskanzerORCiDGND, Howel G. Pugh, Gulshan Rai, Wolfgang Hans Rauch, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, Waldemar Retyk, Gunther RolandGND, Hermann Rothard, Kay RungeGND, Andres SandovalORCiD, Joachim SchambachORCiD, Norbert SchmitzGND, Emile Schmoetten, Ingo SchneiderGND, Ralf Sendelbach, Peter SeybothORCiDGND, Jürgen SeyerleinGND, Ewa Skrzypczak, Piotr Stefansky, Lawrence Paul Teitelbaum, Shaheen Tonse, Thomas A. TrainorORCiD, Georgios VasileiadisORCiD, Maria VassiliouORCiD, Siegfried WenigORCiD, Martinus Wensveen, Barbara WosiekORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-17171
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s002880050333
ISSN:0170-9739
Parent Title (German):Zeitschrift für Physik. C, Particles and fields
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/09/30
Year of first Publication:1997
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Creating Corporation:NA35 Collaboration
Release Date:2005/09/30
Volume:73
Page Number:6
First Page:443
Last Page:448
HeBIS-PPN:185302300
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht