Coulomb corrections to the three-body correlation function in high-energy heavy ion reactions

Dec, 1998
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 458 (1999) 407-414
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Abstract:
Starting from an asymptotically correct three-body Coulomb wave-function, we determine the effect of Coulomb final state interaction on the three-particle Bose-Einstein correlation function of similarly charged particles. We numerically estimate that the Riverside approximation is not precise enough to determine the three-body Coulomb correction factor in the correlation function, if the characteristic HBT radius parameter is 5 - 10 fm, which is the range of interest in high-energy heavy ion physics.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 4 figures
  • Submitted to None
  • Three-body Coulomb
  • Correlations
  • High-energy
  • Heavy-ion
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • potential: Coulomb
  • three-body problem
  • Schroedinger equation: wave function
  • correlation function: (3particle)
  • boson: statistics