Bose-Einstein correlation of kaons in Si+Au collisions at 14.6A GeV/c
Abstract
The E-802 spectrometer at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, enhanced by a trigger for selection of events with one or more specified particles, has been used to measure the momentum-space correlation between pairs of K+'s emitted in central Si+Au collisions at 14.6 A GeV/c. This correlation has been projected onto the Lorentz-invariant relative four-momentum axis. Fits to this correlation function yield a size for the kaon source that is comparable to that found using π+ pairs from a similar rapidity range, once a transformation from the particle-pair frames to a single source frame is made.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1057
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvL..70.1057A
- Keywords:
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- Elementary Particle Interactions;
- Gold;
- Kaons;
- Quantum Statistics;
- Silicon;
- Lorentz Transformations;
- Particle Collisions;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics;
- 25.75.+r;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Quark-gluon plasma