Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-10-30
Phys.Rev. C69 (2004) 044902
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C. (revised description of fireball expansion)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.69.044902
The common interpretation of HBT data measured at top SPS energies leads to apparent source lifetimes of 6-8 fm/c and emission duration of approximately 2-3 fm/c. We investigate a scenario with continuous pion emission from a long-lived (~17 fm/c) thermalized source in order to show that it is not excluded by the data. Starting from a description of the source's spacetime expansion based on gross thermodynamical properties of hot matter (which is able to describe a number of experimental observables), we introduce the pion emission function with a contribution from continuous emission during the source's lifetime and another contribution from the final breakup and proceed by calculating the HBT parameters R_out and R_side. The results are compared with experimental data measured at SPS for 158 AGeV central Pb-Pb collisions. We achieve agreement with data, provided that some minor modifications of the fireball evolution scenario are made and find that the parameter R_out is not sensitive to the fireball lifetime, but only to the duration of the final breakup, in spite of the fact that emission takes place throughout the whole lifetime. We explicitly demonstrate that those findings do not alter previous results obtained within this model.
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