Quantum opacity, the RHIC hanbury brown-twiss puzzle, and the chiral phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Cramer, John G ^a   Miller, Gerald A ^a   Wu, Jackson M S ^a   Yoon, Jin Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL SYMMETRY; HANBURY BROWN-TWISS (HBT) INTERFEROMETRY; PIONS; WIGNER TRANSFORM;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEAVY IONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPACITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044368875     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.102302     Document Type: Article

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