Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
1998-01-07
Phys.Rev. C57 (1998) 3324-3339; Erratum-ibid. C61 (2000) 029902
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
17 pages RevTeX, 8 eps-figures, replaced by published version, one typo [sigma^2 --> 1/sigma^2] corrected w.r.t. Erratum. All
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.57.3324
Multiparticle symmetrization effects are contributions to the spectra of Bose-symmetrized states which are not the product of pairwise correlations. Usually they are neglected in particle interferometric calculations which aim at determining the geometry of the boson emitting source from the measured momentum distributions. Based on a method introduced by Zajc and Pratt, we give a calculation of all multiparticle symmetrization effects to the one- and two-particle momentum spectra for a Gaussian phase space distribution of emission points. Our starting point is an ensemble of N-particle Bose-symmetrized wavefunctions with specified phase space localization. In scenarios typical for relativistic heavy ion collisions, multiparticle effects steepen the slope of the one-particle spectrum for realistic particle phase space densities by up to 20 MeV, and they broaden the relative momentum dependence of the two-particle correlations. We discuss these modifications and their consequences in quantitative detail. Also, we explain how multiparticle effects modify the normalization of the two-particle correlator. The resulting normalization conserves event probabilities, which is not the case for the commonly used pair approximation. Finally, we propose a new method of calculating Bose-Einstein weights from the output of event generators, taking multiparticle correlations into account.
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