1. One-, Two- and Three-Particle Distributions from 158 A GeV/c Central Pb+Pb Collisions
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Aggarwal, M.M., Angelis, A.L.S., Antonenko, V., Arefiev, V., Astakhov, V., Avdeitchikov, V., C. Awes, T., Baba, P.V.K.S., Badyal, S.K., Bathe, S., Batiounia, B., Bernier, T., Bhalla, K.B., Bhatia, V.S., Blume, C., Bucher, D., Büsching, H., Carlén, L., Chattopadhyay, S., Decowski, M.P., Delagrange, H., Donni, P., Dutta Majumdar, M.R., El Chenawi, K., Enosawa, K., Fokin, S., Frolov, V., Ganti, M.S., Garpman, S., Gavrishchuk, O., Geurts, F.J.M., Ghosh, T.K., Glasow, R., Guskov, B., Gustafsson, H.Å., Gutbrod, H.H., Hrivnacova, I., Ippolitov, M., Kalechofsky, H., Kamermans, R., Karadjev, K., Karpio, K., Kolb, B.W., Kosarev, I., Koutcheryaev, I., Kugler, A., Kulinich, P., Kurata, M., Lebedev, A., Löhner, H., Mahapatra, D.P., Manko, V., Martin, M., Martinez Garcia, Gines, Maximov, A., Miake, Y., Mishra, G.C., Mohanty, B., Mora, M.-J., Morrison, D., Mukhanova, T., Mukhopadhyay, D.S., Naef, H., Nandi, B.K., Nayak, S.K., Nayak, T.K., Nianine, A., Nikitine, V., Nikolaev, S., Nilsson, P., Nishimura, S., Nomokonov, P., Nystrand, J., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Peitzmann, T., Peressounko, D., Petracek, V., Plasil, F., Purschke, M.L., Rak, J., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Rao, N.K., Reygers, K., Roland, G., Rosselet, L., Roufanov, I., Rubio, J.M., Sambyal, S.S., Santo, R., Sato, S., Schlagheck, H., Schmidt, H.-R., Schutz, Y., Shabratova, G., Shah, T.H., Sibiriak, I., Siemiarczuk, T., Silvermyr, D., Sinha, B.C., Slavine, N., Söderström, K., Sood, G., Sørensen, S.P., Stankus, P., Stefanek, G., Steinberg, P., Stenlund, E., Sumbera, M., Svensson, T., Tsvetkov, A., Tykarski, L., V. D. Pijll, E.C., V. Eijndhoven, N., J. V. Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vinogradov, A., Viyogi, Y.P., Vodopianov, A., Vörös, S., Wyslouch, B., Young, G.R., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)
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25.75.Gz ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
Several hadronic observables have been studied in central 158 A GeV Pb+Pb collisions using data measured by the WA98 experiment at CERN: single negative pion and kaon production, as well as two- and three-pion interferometry. The Wiedemann-Heinz hydrodynamical model has been fitted to the pion spectrum, giving an estimate of the temperature and transverse flow velocity. Bose-Einstein correlations between two identified negative pions have been analysed as a function of kT, using two different parameterizations. The results indicate that the source does not have a strictly boost invariant expansion or spend time in a long-lived intermediate phase. A comparison between data and a hydrodynamical based simulation shows very good agreement for the radii parameters as a function of kT. The pion phase-space density at freeze-out has been measured and agrees well with the Tomasik-Heinz model. A large pion chemical potential close to the condensation limit of the pion mass seems to be excluded. The three-pion Bose-Einstein interferometry shows a substantial contribution of the genuine three-pion correlation, but not quite as large as expected for a fully chaotic and symmetric source., 24 pages including 17 figures
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- 2003
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