Meson phase space density from interferometry

The interferometric analysis of meson correlations provides a measure of the average phase space density of the mesons in the final state. This quantity is a useful indicator of the statistical properties of the system, and it can be extracted with a minimum of model assumptions. Values obtained from recent measurements are consistent with the thermal value, but do not rule out superradiance effects.

scattering: heavy ion
heavy ion: scattering
meson: hadroproduction
hadroproduction: meson
correlation function: (2meson)
phase space: density
quark gluon: plasma

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