Two and Three-Pion Quantum Statistics Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV at the LHC

Abstract

Correlations induced by quantum statistics are sensitive to the spatio-temporal 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 $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76$ TeV at the LHC 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% $\pm$ 8%.

29 pages, 9 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 24, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/435

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