Space-time evolution of nuclear reactions probed by two-proton intensity interferometry

Feb, 1991
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 43 (1991) 781-800

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Abstract: (APS)
An approximate relation is derived which allows the calculation of the two-proton correlation function for any reaction model capable of predicting the classical single-particle phase-space distribution or Wigner function in the exit channel. The sensitivity of the calculated two-proton correlation functions to source radii and lifetimes is illustrated with simple parametrizations. More realistic calculations are presented for two different regimes of emission time scales: slow particle evaporation from equilibrated compound nuclei, as predicted from the Weisskopf formula, and fast nonequilibrium particle emission in intermediate-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, as predicted from the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport equation.
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