Measurement of Source Chaoticity for Particle Emission in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 130 GeV using 3-Particle HBT Correlations

Abstract

Data from the first physics run at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory from the STAR experiment have been analyzed using three-pion correlations to study whether pions are emitted independently at freezeout. We have made a high-statistics measurement of the three-pion correlation function and calculated the normalized three-particle correlator to obtain a quantitative measurement of the degree of chaoticity in the freeze-out environment.

4 pages, 4 figures. Plenary talk presented at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, France, July 18-24, 2002

References in corpus (1)

• Pion Interferometry of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Correlation femtoscopy of multiparticle processes
• Central and Non-central HBT from AGS to RHIC