Polishing the Lens: I Pionic Final State Interactions and HBT Correlations- Distorted Wave Emission Function (DWEF) Formalism and Examples

Abstract

The emission of pions produced within a dense, strongly-interacting system of matter in the presence of strong radial flow and absorption is described using a relativistic optical model formalism, replacing the attenuated or unattenuated plane waves of earlier emission function approaches with ``distorted wave'' solutions to a relativistic wave equation including a complex optical potential. The resulting distorted-wave emission function model (DWEF) is used in numerical calculations to fit HBT correlations and the resonance-corrected pion spectrum from central-collision STAR Au+Au pion data at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. The parameters of the emission function are constrained by adopting a pion formation temperature taken from lattice gauge calculations and a chemical potential equal to the pion mass suggested by chiral symmetry restoration. Excellent agreement with the STAR data are obtained. The applications are extended by applying linear participant scaling to the space-time parameters of the model while keeping all other parameters fixed. This allows us to predict HBT radii over a range of centralities for both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions. Good agreement is found with STAR HBT data for all but the most peripheral collisions.

35 pages 19 figures; extensively revised from previous version, but conclusions remain unchanged. New predictions of 200 GeV Au+Au and Cu+Cu vs. centrality

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