Pion Interferometry at RHIC: Probing a thermalized Quark-Gluon-Plasma?

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2000-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0012085v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 86 (2001) 3981-3984

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

4 pages, 3 figures, revised version, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in print)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3981

We calculate the Gaussian radius parameters of the pion-emitting source in high energy heavy ion collisions, assuming a first order phase transition from a thermalized Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) to a gas of hadrons. Such a model leads to a very long-lived dissipative hadronic rescattering phase which dominates the properties of the two-pion correlation functions. The radii are found to depend only weakly on the thermalization time tau_i, the critical temperature T_c (and thus the latent heat), and the specific entropy of the QGP. The dissipative hadronic stage enforces large variations of the pion emission times around the mean. Therefore, the model calculations suggest a rapid increase of R_out/R_side as a function of K_T if a thermalized QGP were formed.

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