Recent results for source function imaging from AGS through CERN SPS to RHIC

Abstract

Recent femtoscopic measurements involving the use of an imaging technique and a newly developed moment analysis are presented and discussed. We show that this new paradigm allows robust investigation of reaction dynamics for which the sound speed $c_s\ne 0$ during an extended hadronization period. Source functions extracted for charged pions produced in Au+Au and Pb+Pb collisions show non-Gaussian tails for a broad selection of collision energies. The ratio of the RMS radii of these source functions in the out and side directions are found to be greater than 1, suggesting a finite emission time for pions.

Proceedings, XXXVI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics/Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Brazil, 2006

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