Resolving the HBT Puzzle in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Two particle correlation data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have provided detailed femtoscopic information describing the space-time structure of the emission of pions. This data had avoided description with hydrodynamic-based approaches, in contrast to the success of hydrodynamics in reproducing other classes of observables. This failure has inspired the term ``HBT puzzle'', where HBT refers to femtoscopic studies which were originally based on Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry. Here, the puzzle is shown to originate not from a single shortcoming of hydrodynamic models, but the combination of several effects: mainly including pre-thermalized acceleration, using a stiffer equation of state, and adding viscous corrections.Note:
- 4 pages, 2 figures
- 25.75.Gz
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- heavy ion: scattering
- correlation: two-particle
- pi: emission
- Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect
- hydrodynamics
- equation of state
- nuclear reaction: space-time
- viscosity
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