Physics Letters B (Aug 2019)

Identical pion intensity interferometry in central Au+Au collisions at 1.23A GeV

  • J. Adamczewski-Musch,
  • O. Arnold,
  • C. Behnke,
  • A. Belounnas,
  • A. Belyaev,
  • J.C. Berger-Chen,
  • J. Biernat,
  • A. Blanco,
  • C. Blume,
  • M. Böhmer,
  • P. Bordalo,
  • S. Chernenko,
  • L. Chlad,
  • C. Deveaux,
  • J. Dreyer,
  • A. Dybczak,
  • E. Epple,
  • L. Fabbietti,
  • O. Fateev,
  • P. Filip,
  • P. Fonte,
  • C. Franco,
  • J. Friese,
  • I. Fröhlich,
  • T. Galatyuk,
  • J.A. Garzón,
  • R. Gernhäuser,
  • M. Golubeva,
  • R. Greifenhagen,
  • F. Guber,
  • M. Gumberidze,
  • S. Harabasz,
  • T. Heinz,
  • T. Hennino,
  • S. Hlavac,
  • C. Höhne,
  • R. Holzmann,
  • A. Ierusalimov,
  • A. Ivashkin,
  • B. Kämpfer,
  • T. Karavicheva,
  • B. Kardan,
  • I. Koenig,
  • W. Koenig,
  • B.W. Kolb,
  • G. Korcyl,
  • G. Kornakov,
  • R. Kotte,
  • A. Kugler,
  • T. Kunz,
  • A. Kurepin,
  • A. Kurilkin,
  • P. Kurilkin,
  • V. Ladygin,
  • R. Lalik,
  • K. Lapidus,
  • A. Lebedev,
  • L. Lopes,
  • M. Lorenz,
  • T. Mahmoud,
  • L. Maier,
  • A. Mangiarotti,
  • J. Markert,
  • T. Matulewicz,
  • S. Maurus,
  • V. Metag,
  • J. Michel,
  • D.M. Mihaylov,
  • S. Morozov,
  • C. Müntz,
  • R. Münzer,
  • L. Naumann,
  • K. Nowakowski,
  • M. Palka,
  • Y. Parpottas,
  • V. Pechenov,
  • O. Pechenova,
  • O. Petukhov,
  • K. Piasecki,
  • J. Pietraszko,
  • W. Przygoda,
  • S. Ramos,
  • B. Ramstein,
  • A. Reshetin,
  • P. Rodriguez-Ramos,
  • P. Rosier,
  • A. Rost,
  • A. Sadovsky,
  • P. Salabura,
  • T. Scheib,
  • H. Schuldes,
  • E. Schwab,
  • F. Scozzi,
  • F. Seck,
  • P. Sellheim,
  • I. Selyuzhenkov,
  • J. Siebenson,
  • L. Silva,
  • Yu.G. Sobolev,
  • S. Spataro,
  • S. Spies,
  • H. Ströbele,
  • J. Stroth,
  • P. Strzempek,
  • C. Sturm,
  • O. Svoboda,
  • M. Szala,
  • P. Tlusty,
  • M. Traxler,
  • H. Tsertos,
  • E. Usenko,
  • V. Wagner,
  • C. Wendisch,
  • M.G. Wiebusch,
  • J. Wirth,
  • D. Wójcik,
  • Y. Zanevsky,
  • P. Zumbruch

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 795
pp. 446 – 451

Abstract

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We investigate identical pion HBT intensity interferometry in central Au+Au collisions at 1.23A GeV. High-statistics π−π− and π+π+ data are measured with HADES at SIS18/GSI. The radius parameters, derived from the correlation function depending on relative momenta in the longitudinally comoving system and parametrized as three-dimensional Gaussian distribution, are studied as function of transverse momentum. A substantial charge-sign difference of the source radii is found, particularly pronounced at low transverse momentum. The extracted source parameters agree well with a smooth extrapolation of the center-of-mass energy dependence established at higher energies, extending the corresponding excitation functions down towards a very low energy.