Resolving the HBT Puzzle in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision

Nov, 2008
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 102 (2009) 232301
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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.
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  • 4 pages, 2 figures
  • 25.75.Gz
  • 25.75.Ld
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • correlation: two-particle
  • pi: emission
  • Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect
  • hydrodynamics
  • equation of state
  • nuclear reaction: space-time
  • viscosity