Stable Bose-Einstein correlations

Abstract

The shape of Bose-Einstein (or HBT) correlation functions is determined for the case when particles are emitted from a stable source, obtained after convolutions of large number of elementary random processes. The two-particle correlation function is shown to have a {\it stretched exponential} shape, characterized by the Lévy index of stability $0<\alpha \le 2$ and the scale parameter $R$. The normal, Gaussian shape corresponds to a particular case, when $\alpha =2$ is selected. The asymmetry parameter of the stable source, $\beta$ is shown to be proportional to the angle, measured by the normalized three-particle cumulant correlations.

7 pages, no figures, invited talk of T. Csorgo at the 2nd Warsaw Meeting on Particle Correlations and Resonances in HIC, see http://hirg.if.pw.edu.pl/en/meeting/oct2003/talks/csorgo/Csorgo.ppt