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Pion Interferometry From A Relativistic Fluid With A First Order Phase Transition In CERN-SPS 158 GeV/A Pb+Pb Collisions

K. Morita, S. Muroya, H. Nakamura, C. Nonaka

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0002001

Abstract

We investigate pion source sizes through the Yano-Koonin-Podgoretskiı (YKP) parametrization for the Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) effect in the CERN-SPS 158 GeV/A central collisions. We calculate two-particle correlation functions numerically based on a (3+1)-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics with a first order phase transition and analyze the pair momentum dependence of the HBT radii extracted from the YKP parametrization in detail. We find that even in the case of a first order phase transition, expansion and the surface dominant freeze-out make the source in the hydrodynamical model opaque significantly. Consequently, the interpretation of the temporal radius parameter as the time duration becomes unavailable for the hydrodynamical model.

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