Coulomb corrections for Bose-Einstein correlations in whole momentum transfer region: Proposal of seamless fitting

Abstract

We applied an improved Coulomb correction method developed by us recently to data on identical KK-pairs production in S + Pb and p + Pb reactions at 200 GeV/c obtained by NA44 Collaboration. To analyse the whole range of the momentum transfers measured the method of "seamless fitting" has been proposed and used together with the asymptotic expansion formula for the Coulomb wave function. We found that such Coulomb corrections lead sometimes to different than previously reported (by NA44 Collaboration) interaction region and strongly influence the long range correlations.