Review of HBT or Bose-Einstein correlations in high energy heavy ion collisions

Abstract

A brief review is given on the discovery and the first five decades of the Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect and its generalized applications in high energy nuclear and particle physics, that includes a meta-review. Interesting and inspiring new directions are also highlighted, including for example source imaging, lepton and photon interferometry, non-Gaussian shape analysis as well as many other new directions. Existing models are compared to two-particle correlation measurements and the so-called RHIC HBT puzzle is resolved. Evidence for a (directional) Hubble flow is presented and the conclusion is confirmed by a successful description of the pseudorapidity dependence of the elliptic flow as measured in Au+Au collisions by the PHOBOS Collaboration.

14 pages, 1 figure, 8 sub-figures, invited plenary talk at the ICPA-QGP 2005 conference in Kolkata, India

References in corpus (12)

• Critical point of QCD at finite T and μ, lattice results for physical quark masses
• Bose-Einstein Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200_ GeV
• Fluctuations of the Initial Conditions and the Continuous Emission in Hydrodynamic Description of Two-Pion Interferometry
• Quantum Opacity, the RHIC HBT Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition
• Indication of quark deconfinement and evidence for a Hubble flow in 130 and 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
• A model for the spacetime evolution of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC
• Intensity interferometry of direct photons emitted in Au+Au collisions
• Rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of pion-pion Bose-Einstein correlations measured at 20, 30, 40, 80, and 158 AGeV beam energy
• HBT Interferometry: Historical Perspective
• Non-identical particle correlations in 130 and 200 AGeV collisions at STAR
• Rapidity and k_T dependence of HBT correlations in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV with PHOBOS
• Lepton interferometry in relativistic heavy ion collisions - a case study

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Hydrodynamic Approaches in Relativistic Heavy Ion Reactions
• Correlation femtoscopy
• Stellar Intensity Interferometry: Prospects for sub-milliarcsecond optical imaging
• Continuous Decoupling of Dynamically Expanding Systems
• Interplay among the azimuthally dependent HBT radii and the elliptic flow
• Probing the evolution of heavy-ion collisions using direct photon interferometry
• Strangeness Enhancement: Challenges and Successes
• Bose-Einstein Correlations of Charged and Neutral Kaons in Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA
• The Nonlocal Pancharatnam Phase in Two-Photon Interferometry
• Two-Particle Correlations in the Wave Function and Covariant Current Approaches
• Identical Particle Correlations in STAR