CERN Accelerating science

Article
Report number	nucl-th/9704051 ; TPR-96-24
Title	Space-time characteristics of the fireball from HBT interferometry
Author(s)	Tomasik, Boris (Regensburg U. ; Comenius U.) ; Heinz, Ulrich W. (Regensburg U. ; CERN) ; Wiedemann, U.A. (Regensburg U.) ; Wu, Y.F. (Regensburg U. ; Hua-Zhong Normal U.)
Publication	1997
Imprint	24 Apr 1997
Number of pages	13
In:	Heavy Ion Workshop on Particle Physics, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2 - 6 Sep 1996, pp.81-93
Subject category	Nuclear Physics
Abstract	We present the Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskii parametrisation of the correlation function. Compared to the conventionally used Cartesian parametrisation, this one provides more straightforward measurement of the duration of the emission process in the fireball and a clearer signal of the longitudinal expansion, which is expected in ulrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

Corresponding record in: Inspire
Email contact: [email protected]