Two- and three-pion quantum statistics correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider


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Abelev B., Adam J., Adamová D., Aggarwal M., Rinella G. A., Agnello M., ...Daha Fazla

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, cilt.89, sa.2, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 89 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevc.89.024911
  • Dergi Adı: Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Correlations induced by quantum statistics are sensitive to the spatiotemporal extent as well as dynamics of particle-emitting sources in heavy-ion collisions. In addition, such correlations can be used to search for the presence of a coherent component of pion production. Two- and three-pion correlations of same and mixed charge are measured at low relative momentum to estimate the coherent fraction of charged pions in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with ALICE. The genuine three-pion quantum statistics correlation is found to be suppressed relative to the two-pion correlation based on the assumption of fully chaotic pion emission. The suppression is observed to decrease with triplet momentum. The observed suppression at low triplet momentum may correspond to a coherent fraction in charged-pion emission of 23%±8% © 2014 CERN, for the Alice Collaboration.