MESON PHASE-SPACE DENSITY IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS FROM INTERFEROMETRY

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BERTSCH, GF [1 ]
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[1] UNIV WASHINGTON,INST NUCL THEORY,SEATTLE,WA 98195
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.2349
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O4 [物理学];
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The interferometric analysis of meson correlations provides a measure of the average phase space density of the mesons in the final state. This quantity is a useful indicator of the statistical properties of the system, and it can be extracted with a minimum of model assumptions. Values obtained from recent measurements are consistent with the thermal value, but do not rule out superradiance effects.
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