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Freeze-out radii extracted from three-pion cumulants in pp, p–Pb and Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC

In high-energy collisions, the spatio-temporal size of the particle production region can be measured using the Bose-Einstein correlations of identical bosons at low relative momentum. The source radii are typically extracted using two-pion correlations, and characterize the system at the last stage...

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Main Authors: Abelev, Betty (Author) , Angelov, Venelin (Author) , Busch, Oliver (Author) , Glässel, Peter (Author) , Klein, Jochen (Author) , Lohner, Daniel (Author) , Lu, Xianguo (Author) , Maire, Antonin (Author) , Mercado Pérez, Jorge (Author) , Oyama, Ken (Author) , Pachmayer, Yvonne C. (Author) , Reygers, Klaus (Author) , Schicker, Rainer (Author) , Stachel, Johanna (Author) , Stiller, Johannes Hendrik (Author) , Vallero, Sara (Author) , Völkl, Martin (Author) , Wilkinson, Jeremy (Author) , Windelband, Bernd (Author) , Winn, Michael (Author) , Zimmermann, Alice (Author)
Corporate Author: ALICE (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 18 October 2014
In: Physics letters
Year: 2014, Volume: 739, Pages: 139-151
ISSN:1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.10.034
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.10.034
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314007576
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Author Notes:ALICE Collaboration*
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Summary:In high-energy collisions, the spatio-temporal size of the particle production region can be measured using the Bose-Einstein correlations of identical bosons at low relative momentum. The source radii are typically extracted using two-pion correlations, and characterize the system at the last stage of interaction, called kinetic freeze-out. In low-multiplicity collisions, unlike in high-multiplicity collisions, two-pion correlations are substantially altered by background correlations, e.g. mini-jets. Such correlations can be suppressed using three-pion cumulant correlations. We present the first measurements of the size of the system at freeze-out extracted from three-pion cumulant correlations in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE. At similar multiplicity, the invariant radii extracted in p-Pb collisions are found to be 5-15% larger than those in pp, while those in Pb-Pb are 35-55% larger than those in p-Pb. Our measurements disfavor models which incorporate substantially stronger collective expansion in p-Pb as compared to pp collisions at similar multiplicity.
Item Description:*ALICE Collaboration: B. Abelev, V. Anguelov, O. Busch, P. Glässel, J. Klein, D. Lohner, X.-G. Lu, A. Maire, J. Mercado Pérez, K. Oyama, Y. Pachmayer, K. Reygers, R. Schicker, J. Stachel, J. Stiller, S. Vallero, M. Völkl, J. Wilkinson, B. Windelband, M. Winn, A. Zimmermann [und 920 weitere Personen]
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ISSN:1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.10.034

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