Meson interferometry and the quest for quark-gluon matter

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

OSTI ID:789184

Soff, Sven

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: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• 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; R&D Project: NTCOST; TRN: US0111410
• Resource Relation: Conference: XXXI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Datong (CN), 09/01/2001--09/07/2001; Other Information: PBD: 15 Oct 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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