TWO-PARTICLECORRELATIONS INRELATIVISTICHEAVY-IONCOLLISIONS
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
- Vol. 49 (1) , 529-579
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.529
Abstract
▪ Abstract Two-particle momentum correlations between pairs of identical particles produced in relativistic heavy-ion reactions can be analyzed to extract the space-time structure of the collision fireball. We review recent progress in the application of this method, based on newly developed theoretical tools and new high-quality data from heavy-ion collision experiments. Implications for our understanding of the collision dynamics and for the search for the quark-gluon plasma are discussed.Keywords
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