Meson phase space density in heavy ion collisions from interferometry
- 11 April 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (15) , 2349-2350
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.2349
Abstract
The interferometric analysis of meson correlations provides a measure of the average phase space density of the mesons in the final state. This quantity is a useful indicator of the statistical properties of the system, and it can be extracted with a minimum of model assumptions. Values obtained from recent measurements are consistent with the thermal value, but do not rule out superradiance effects.Keywords
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