Pion interferometry at RHIC: Probing a thermalized quark-gluon plasma?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3981-3984

  Soff, Sven ^a   Bass, Steffen A ^b,c   Dumitru, Adrian ^d  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMA PROBES; QUANTUM THEORY;

GAUSSIAN RADIUS PARAMETERS; PION INTERFEROMETRY; QUARK GLUON PLASMA;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0035971809     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3981     Document Type: Article

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