TY - INPR A1 - Soff, Sven A1 - Bass, Steffen A. A1 - Hardtke, David H. A1 - Panitkin, Sergey Y. T1 - Particle correlations at RHIC - scrutiny of a puzzle N2 - We present calculations of two-pion and two-kaon correlation functions in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a relativistic transport model that includes explicitly a first-order phase transition from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma to a hadron gas. We compare the obtained correlation radii with recent data from RHIC. The predicted R_side radii agree with data while the R_out and R_long radii are overestimated. We also address the impact of in-medium modifications, for example, a broadening of the rho-meson, on the correlation radii. In particular, the longitudinal correlation radius R_long is reduced, improving the comparison to data. Y1 - 2002 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4820 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-6858 ER -