Three-pion correlations in sulphur-lead collisions at the CERN SPS

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作者
Boggild, H
Boissevain, J
Dodd, J
Esumi, S
Fabjan, CW
Ferenc, D
Franz, A
Hardtke, D
van Hecke, H
Humanic, TJ
Ikemoto, T
Jacak, BV
Kalechofsky, H
Kobayashi, T
Kvatadze, R
Lee, YY
Leltchouk, M
Lörstad, B
Maeda, N
Miake, Y
Miyabayashi, A
Murray, M
Nagamiya, S
Nishimura, S
Paic, G
Pandey, SU
Piuz, F
Polychronakos, V
Potekhin, M
Poulard, G
Rahm, D
Rieubland, JM
Sakaguchi, A
Sarabura, M
Shigaki, K
Simon-Gillo, J
Schmidt-Sorensen, J
Sondheim, W
Sugitate, T
Sullivan, JP
Sumi, Y
Willis, WJ
机构
[1] Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[2] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[3] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[4] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 739, Japan
[5] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[6] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
[7] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[8] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[9] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[10] Riken Linac Lab, Wako, Saitama 35101, Japan
[11] Lund Univ, S-22362 Lund, Sweden
[12] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[13] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
基金
日本学术振兴会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00402-5
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
pi(+) pi(+) pi(+) correlations from sulphur-lead collisions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon are presented as measured by the focusing spectrometer of experiment NA44 at CERN. We have investigated the three-pion correlation function at mid-rapidity and found that a genuine three-body correlation is suppressed. A possible interpretation of this result is that the emission of particles is partially coherent. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:7
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