Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS)

Technical Report · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6746381· OSTI ID:6746381

Christie, Jr, W B

This thesis contains the setup, analysis and results of experiment E684H Multi-Pion Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions''. The goals of the original proposal were: (1) To initiate the use of the HISS facility in the study of central Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC). (2) To perform a second generation experiment for the detailed study of the pion source in RHIC. The first generation experiments, implied by the second goal above, refer to pion correlation studies which the Riverside group had performed at the LBL streamer chamber. The major advantage offered by moving the pion correlation studies to HISS is that, being an electronic detector system, as opposed to the Streamer Chamber which is a visual detector, one can greatly increase the statistics for a study of this sort. An additional advantage is that once one has written the necessary detector and physics analysis code to do a particular type of study, the study may be extended to investigate the systematics, with much less effort and in a relatively short time. This paper discusses the Physics motivation for this experiment, the experimental setup and detectors used, the pion correlation analysis, the results, and the conclusions possible future directions for pion studies at HISS. If one is not interested in all the details of the experiment, I believe that by reading the sections on intensity interferometry, the section the fitting of the correlation function and the systematic corrections applied, and the results section, one will get a fairly complete synopsis of the experiment.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6746381
• Report Number(s): LBL-28986; ON: DE90014181; TRN: 90-027646
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.). Thesis submitted to the Univ. of California, Davis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
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DETECTION
DRIFT CHAMBERS
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PION REACTIONS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
FUNCTIONS
HADRON REACTIONS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MESON REACTIONS
MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS
RADIATION DETECTORS
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