Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-06-07
Phys.Lett. B458 (1999) 181-189
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
10 pages (LaTeX) text, 4 (EPS) figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
Correlations of two protons emitted near midrapidity in p+Pb collisions at 450 GeV/c and S+Pb collisions at 200A GeV/c are presented, as measured by the NA44 Experiment. The correlation effect, which arises as a result of final state interactions and Fermi-Dirac statistics, is related to the space-time characteristics of proton emission. The measured source sizes are smaller than the size of the target lead nucleus but larger than the sizes of the projectiles. A dependence on the collision centrality is observed; the source size increases with decreasing impact parameter. Proton source sizes near midrapidity appear to be smaller than those of pions in the same interactions. Quantitative agreement with the results of RQMD (v1.08) simulations is found for p+Pb collisions. For S+Pb collisions the measured correlation effect is somewhat weaker than that predicted by the model simulations, implying either a larger source size or larger contribution of protons from long-lived particle decays.
et al Boggild H.
NA44 Collaboration
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