Meson interferometry and the quest for quark-gluon matter

Conference · Mon Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:789184

Soff, Sven ^[1]

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We point out what we may learn from the investigation of identical two-particle interferometry in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions if we assume a particular model scenario by the formation of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma hadronizing via a first-order phase transition to an interacting hadron gas. The bulk properties of the two-pion correlation functions are dominated by these late and soft resonance gas rescattering processes. However, we show that kaons at large transverse momenta have several advantages and a bigger sensitivity to the QCD phase transition parameters.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 789184
• Report Number(s): LBNL--49038
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
HADRONS
HEAVY IONS
INTERFEROMETRY
ION COLLISIONS
KAONS
MESONS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUARK MATTER
QUARK-GLUON INTERACTIONS
RESCATTERING
ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLISIONS