Pion Interferometry of square root of (s(NN)) =130 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC

C Adler; Z Ahammed; C Allgower; J Amonett; B D Anderson; M Anderson; G S Averichev; J Balewski; O Barannikova; L S Barnby; J Baudot; S Bekele; V V Belaga; R Bellwied; J Berger; H Bichsel; L C Bland; C O Blyth; B E Bonner; R Bossingham; A Boucham; A Brandin; R V Cadman; H Caines; M Calderón De La Barca Sánchez; A Cardenas; J Carroll; J Castillo; M Castro; D Cebra; S Chattopadhyay; M L Chen; Y Chen; S P Chernenko; M Cherney; A Chikanian; B Choi; W Christie; J P Coffin; L Conin; T M Cormier; J G Cramer; H J Crawford; M DeMello; W S Deng; A A Derevschikov; L Didenko; J E Draper; V B Dunin; J C Dunlop; V Eckardt; L G Efimov; V Emelianov; J Engelage; G Eppley; B Erazmus; P Fachini; V Faine; E Finch; Y Fisyak; D Flierl; K J Foley; J Fu; N Gagunashvili; J Gans; L Gaudichet; M Germain; F Geurts; V Ghazikhanian; J Grabski; O Grachov; D Greiner; V Grigoriev; M Guedon; E Gushin; T J Hallman; D Hardtke; J W Harris; M Heffner; S Heppelmann; T Herston; B Hippolyte; A Hirsch; E Hjort; G W Hoffmann; M Horsley; H Z Huang; T J Humanic; H Hümmler; G Igo; A Ishihara; Y I Ivanshin; P Jacobs; W W Jacobs; M Janik; I Johnson; P G Jones; E Judd; M Kaneta; M Kaplan; D Keane; A Kisiel; J Klay; S R Klein; A Klyachko; A S Konstantinov; L Kotchenda; A D Kovalenko; M Kramer; P Kravtsov; K Krueger; C Kuhn; A I Kulikov; G J Kunde; C L Kunz; R K Kutuev; A A Kuznetsov; L Lakehal-Ayat; J Lamas-Valverde; M A Lamont; J M Landgraf; S Lange; C P Lansdell; B Lasiuk; F Laue; A Lebedev; T LeCompte; R Lednický; V M Leontiev; M J LeVine; Q Li; Q Li; S J Lindenbaum; M A Lisa; T Ljubicic; W J Llope; G LoCurto; H Long; R S Longacre; M Lopez-Noriega; W A Love; D Lynn; R Majka; S Margetis; L Martin; J Marx; H S Matis; Y A Matulenko; T S McShane; F Meissner; Y Melnick; A Meschanin; M Messer; M L Miller; Z Milosevich; N G Minaev; J Mitchell; V A Moiseenko; D Moltz; C F Moore; V Morozov; M M de Moura; M G Munhoz; G S Mutchler; J M Nelson; P Nevski; V A Nikitin; L V Nogach; B Norman; S B Nurushev; G Odyniec; A Ogawa; V Okorokov; M Oldenburg; D Olson; G Paic; S U Pandey; Y Panebratsev; S Y Panitkin; A I Pavlinov; T Pawlak; V Perevoztchikov; W Peryt; V A Petrov; W Pinganaud; E Platner; J Pluta; N Porile; J Porter; A M Poskanzer; E Potrebenikova; D Prindle; C Pruneau; S Radomski; G Rai; O Ravel; R L Ray; S V Razin; D Reichhold; J G Reid; F Retiere; A Ridiger; H G Ritter; J B Roberts; O V Rogachevski; J L Romero; C Roy; D Russ; V Rykov; I Sakrejda; J Sandweiss; A C Saulys; I Savin; J Schambach; R P Scharenberg; K Schweda; N Schmitz; L S Schroeder; A Schüttauf; J Seger; D Seliverstov; P Seyboth; E Shahaliev; K E Shestermanov; S S Shimanskii; V S Shvetcov; G Skoro; N Smirnov; R Snellings; J Sowinski; H M Spinka; B Srivastava; E J Stephenson; R Stock; A Stolpovsky; M Strikhanov; B Stringfellow; H Stroebele; C Struck; A A Suaide; E Sugarbaker; C Suire; M Sumbera; T J Symons; A Szanto De Toledo; P Szarwas; J Takahashi; A H Tang; J H Thomas; V Tikhomirov; T A Trainor; S Trentalange; M Tokarev; M B Tonjes; V Trofimov; O Tsai; K Turner; T Ullrich; D G Underwood; G Van Buren; A M VanderMolen; A Vanyashin; I M Vasilevski; A N Vasiliev; S E Vigdor; S A Voloshin; F Wang; H Ward; J W Watson; R Wells; T Wenaus; G D Westfall; C Whitten Jr; H Wieman; R Willson; S W Wissink; R Witt; N Xu; Z Xu; A E Yakutin; E Yamamoto; J Yang; P Yepes; A Yokosawa; V I Yurevich; Y V Zanevski; I Zborovský; W M Zhang; R Zoulkarneev; A N Zubarev

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.082301

Pion Interferometry of square root of (s(NN)) =130 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Aug 20;87(8):082301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.082301. Epub 2001 Aug 3.

Authors

C Adler¹, Z Ahammed, C Allgower, J Amonett, B D Anderson, M Anderson, G S Averichev, J Balewski, O Barannikova, L S Barnby, J Baudot, S Bekele, V V Belaga, R Bellwied, J Berger, H Bichsel, L C Bland, C O Blyth, B E Bonner, R Bossingham, A Boucham, A Brandin, R V Cadman, H Caines, M Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, A Cardenas, J Carroll, J Castillo, M Castro, D Cebra, S Chattopadhyay, M L Chen, Y Chen, S P Chernenko, M Cherney, A Chikanian, B Choi, W Christie, J P Coffin, L Conin, T M Cormier, J G Cramer, H J Crawford, M DeMello, W S Deng, A A Derevschikov, L Didenko, J E Draper, V B Dunin, J C Dunlop, V Eckardt, L G Efimov, V Emelianov, J Engelage, G Eppley, B Erazmus, P Fachini, V Faine, E Finch, Y Fisyak, D Flierl, K J Foley, J Fu, N Gagunashvili, J Gans, L Gaudichet, M Germain, F Geurts, V Ghazikhanian, J Grabski, O Grachov, D Greiner, V Grigoriev, M Guedon, E Gushin, T J Hallman, D Hardtke, J W Harris, M Heffner, S Heppelmann, T Herston, B Hippolyte, A Hirsch, E Hjort, G W Hoffmann, M Horsley, H Z Huang, T J Humanic, H Hümmler, G Igo, A Ishihara, Y I Ivanshin, P Jacobs, W W Jacobs, M Janik, I Johnson, P G Jones, E Judd, M Kaneta, M Kaplan, D Keane, A Kisiel, J Klay, S R Klein, A Klyachko, A S Konstantinov, L Kotchenda, A D Kovalenko, M Kramer, P Kravtsov, K Krueger, C Kuhn, A I Kulikov, G J Kunde, C L Kunz, R K Kutuev, A A Kuznetsov, L Lakehal-Ayat, J Lamas-Valverde, M A Lamont, J M Landgraf, S Lange, C P Lansdell, B Lasiuk, F Laue, A Lebedev, T LeCompte, R Lednický, V M Leontiev, M J LeVine, Q Li, Q Li, S J Lindenbaum, M A Lisa, T Ljubicic, W J Llope, G LoCurto, H Long, R S Longacre, M Lopez-Noriega, W A Love, D Lynn, R Majka, S Margetis, L Martin, J Marx, H S Matis, Y A Matulenko, T S McShane, F Meissner, Y Melnick, A Meschanin, M Messer, M L Miller, Z Milosevich, N G Minaev, J Mitchell, V A Moiseenko, D Moltz, C F Moore, V Morozov, M M de Moura, M G Munhoz, G S Mutchler, J M Nelson, P Nevski, V A Nikitin, L V Nogach, B Norman, S B Nurushev, G Odyniec, A Ogawa, V Okorokov, M Oldenburg, D Olson, G Paic, S U Pandey, Y Panebratsev, S Y Panitkin, A I Pavlinov, T Pawlak, V Perevoztchikov, W Peryt, V A Petrov, W Pinganaud, E Platner, J Pluta, N Porile, J Porter, A M Poskanzer, E Potrebenikova, D Prindle, C Pruneau, S Radomski, G Rai, O Ravel, R L Ray, S V Razin, D Reichhold, J G Reid, F Retiere, A Ridiger, H G Ritter, J B Roberts, O V Rogachevski, J L Romero, C Roy, D Russ, V Rykov, I Sakrejda, J Sandweiss, A C Saulys, I Savin, J Schambach, R P Scharenberg, K Schweda, N Schmitz, L S Schroeder, A Schüttauf, J Seger, D Seliverstov, P Seyboth, E Shahaliev, K E Shestermanov, S S Shimanskii, V S Shvetcov, G Skoro, N Smirnov, R Snellings, J Sowinski, H M Spinka, B Srivastava, E J Stephenson, R Stock, A Stolpovsky, M Strikhanov, B Stringfellow, H Stroebele, C Struck, A A Suaide, E Sugarbaker, C Suire, M Sumbera, T J Symons, A Szanto De Toledo, P Szarwas, J Takahashi, A H Tang, J H Thomas, V Tikhomirov, T A Trainor, S Trentalange, M Tokarev, M B Tonjes, V Trofimov, O Tsai, K Turner, T Ullrich, D G Underwood, G Van Buren, A M VanderMolen, A Vanyashin, I M Vasilevski, A N Vasiliev, S E Vigdor, S A Voloshin, F Wang, H Ward, J W Watson, R Wells, T Wenaus, G D Westfall, C Whitten Jr, H Wieman, R Willson, S W Wissink, R Witt, N Xu, Z Xu, A E Yakutin, E Yamamoto, J Yang, P Yepes, A Yokosawa, V I Yurevich, Y V Zanevski, I Zborovský, W M Zhang, R Zoulkarneev, A N Zubarev

Affiliation

¹ University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

PMID: 11497937
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.082301

Abstract

Two-pion correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at square root of [s(NN)] = 130 GeV have been measured by the STAR (solenoidal tracker at RHIC) detector. The source size extracted by fitting the correlations grows with event multiplicity and decreases with transverse momentum. Anomalously large sizes or emission durations, which have been suggested as signals of quark-gluon plasma formation and rehadronization, are not observed. The Hanbury Brown-Twiss parameters display a weak energy dependence over a broad range in square root of [s(NN)].