Fitted HBT Radii Versus Space-Time Variances in Flow-Dominated Models

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Main Author: Evan Frodermann
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Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física 2007
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contents Fitted HBT Radii Versus Space-Time Variances in Flow-Dominated Models Evan Frodermann Ulrich Heinz Mike Lisa Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas Non Flow RHIC Gaussian Femtoscopy The inability of otherwise successful dynamical models to reproduce the “HBT radii” extracted from twoparticlecorrelations measured at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is known as the “RHIC HBTPuzzle”. Most comparisons between models and experiment exploit the fact that for Gaussian sources the HBTradii agree with certain combinations of the space-time widths of the source which can be directly computedfrom the emission function, without having to evaluate, at significant expense, the two-particle correlation function.We here study the validity of this approach for realistic emission function models some of which exhibitsignificant deviations from simple Gaussian behaviour. By Fourier transforming the emission function we computethe 2-particle correlation function and fit it with a Gaussian to partially mimic the procedure used formeasured correlation functions. We describe a novel algorithm to perform this Gaussian fit analytically. Wefind that for realistic hydrodynamic models the HBT radii extracted from this procedure agree better with thedata than the values previously extracted from the space-time widths of the emission function. Although seriousdiscrepancies between the calculated and measured HBT radii remain, we show that a more “apples-to-apples”comparison of models with data can play an important role in any eventually successful theoretical descriptionof RHIC HBT data. 2007 artículo científico 0103-9733 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=46437607 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=464 Brazilian Journal of Physics application/pdf Sociedade Brasileira de Física Brazilian Journal of Physics (Brasil) Num.3A Vol.37
format Artículo científico
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publishDate 2007
publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Física
spellingShingle Fitted HBT Radii Versus Space-Time Variances in Flow-Dominated Models
Evan Frodermann
Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Non
Flow
RHIC
Gaussian
Femtoscopy
Fitted HBT Radii Versus Space-Time Variances in Flow-Dominated Models Evan Frodermann Ulrich Heinz Mike Lisa Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas Non Flow RHIC Gaussian Femtoscopy The inability of otherwise successful dynamical models to reproduce the “HBT radii” extracted from twoparticlecorrelations measured at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is known as the “RHIC HBTPuzzle”. Most comparisons between models and experiment exploit the fact that for Gaussian sources the HBTradii agree with certain combinations of the space-time widths of the source which can be directly computedfrom the emission function, without having to evaluate, at significant expense, the two-particle correlation function.We here study the validity of this approach for realistic emission function models some of which exhibitsignificant deviations from simple Gaussian behaviour. By Fourier transforming the emission function we computethe 2-particle correlation function and fit it with a Gaussian to partially mimic the procedure used formeasured correlation functions. We describe a novel algorithm to perform this Gaussian fit analytically. Wefind that for realistic hydrodynamic models the HBT radii extracted from this procedure agree better with thedata than the values previously extracted from the space-time widths of the emission function. Although seriousdiscrepancies between the calculated and measured HBT radii remain, we show that a more “apples-to-apples”comparison of models with data can play an important role in any eventually successful theoretical descriptionof RHIC HBT data. 2007 artículo científico 0103-9733 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=46437607 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=464 Brazilian Journal of Physics application/pdf Sociedade Brasileira de Física Brazilian Journal of Physics (Brasil) Num.3A Vol.37
title Fitted HBT Radii Versus Space-Time Variances in Flow-Dominated Models
topic Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Non
Flow
RHIC
Gaussian
Femtoscopy
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=46437607