Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 082301 (2001) [6 pages]
Pion Interferometry of sqrt[sNN] = 130 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
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C. Adler11, Z. Ahammed23, C. Allgower12, J. Amonett14, B. D. Anderson14, M. Anderson5, G. S. Averichev9, J. Balewski12, O. Barannikova9,23, L. S. Barnby14, J. Baudot13, S. Bekele20, V. V. Belaga9, R. Bellwied30, J. Berger11, H. Bichsel29, L. C. Bland12, C. O. Blyth3, B. E. Bonner24, R. Bossingham15, A. Boucham26, A. Brandin18, R. V. Cadman1, H. Caines20, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez31, A. Cardenas23, J. Carroll15, J. Castillo26, M. Castro30, D. Cebra5, S. Chattopadhyay30, M. L. Chen2, Y. Chen6, S. P. Chernenko9, M. Cherney8, A. Chikanian31, B. Choi27, W. Christie2, J. P. Coffin13, L. Conin26, T. M. Cormier30, J. G. Cramer29, H. J. Crawford4, M. DeMello24, W. S. Deng14, A. A. Derevschikov22, L. Didenko2, J. E. Draper5, V. B. Dunin9, J. C. Dunlop31, V. Eckardt16, L. G. Efimov9, V. Emelianov18, J. Engelage4, G. Eppley24, B. Erazmus26, P. Fachini25, V. Faine2, E. Finch31, Y. Fisyak2, D. Flierl11, K. J. Foley2, J. Fu15, N. Gagunashvili9, J. Gans31, L. Gaudichet26, M. Germain13, F. Geurts24, V. Ghazikhanian6, J. Grabski28, O. Grachov30, D. Greiner15, V. Grigoriev18, M. Guedon13, E. Gushin18, T. J. Hallman2, D. Hardtke15, J. W. Harris31, M. Heffner5, S. Heppelmann21, T. Herston23, B. Hippolyte13, A. Hirsch23, E. Hjort15, G. W. Hoffmann27, M. Horsley31, H. Z. Huang6, T. J. Humanic20, H. Hümmler16, G. Igo6, A. Ishihara27, Yu. I. Ivanshin10, P. Jacobs15, W. W. Jacobs12, M. Janik28, I. Johnson15, P. G. Jones3, E. Judd4, M. Kaneta15, M. Kaplan7, D. Keane14, A. Kisiel28, J. Klay5, S. R. Klein15, A. Klyachko12, A. S. Konstantinov22, L. Kotchenda18, A. D. Kovalenko9, M. Kramer19, P. Kravtsov18, K. Krueger1, C. Kuhn13, A. I. Kulikov9, G. J. Kunde31, C. L. Kunz7, R. Kh. Kutuev10, A. A. Kuznetsov9, L. Lakehal-Ayat26, J. Lamas-Valverde24, M. A. C. Lamont3, J. M. Landgraf2, S. Lange11, C. P. Lansdell27, B. Lasiuk31, F. Laue2, A. Lebedev2, T. LeCompte1, R. Lednický9, V. M. Leontiev22, M. J. LeVine2, Q. Li30, Q. Li15, S. J. Lindenbaum19, M. A. Lisa20, T. Ljubicic2, W. J. Llope24, G. LoCurto16, H. Long6, R. S. Longacre2, M. Lopez-Noriega20, W. A. Love2, D. Lynn2, R. Majka31, S. Margetis14, L. Martin26, J. Marx15, H. S. Matis15, Yu. A. Matulenko22, T. S. McShane8, F. Meissner15, Yu. Melnick22, A. Meschanin22, M. Messer2, M. L. Miller31, Z. Milosevich7, N. G. Minaev22, J. Mitchell24, V. A. Moiseenko10, D. Moltz15, C. F. Moore27, V. Morozov15, M. M. de Moura30, M. G. Munhoz25, G. S. Mutchler24, J. M. Nelson3, P. Nevski2, V. A. Nikitin10, L. V. Nogach22, B. Norman14, S. B. Nurushev22, G. Odyniec15, A. Ogawa21, V. Okorokov18, M. Oldenburg16, D. Olson15, G. Paic20, S. U. Pandey30, Y. Panebratsev9, S. Y. Panitkin2, A. I. Pavlinov30, T. Pawlak28, V. Perevoztchikov2, W. Peryt28, V. A. Petrov10, W. Pinganaud26, E. Platner24, J. Pluta28, N. Porile23, J. Porter2, A. M. Poskanzer15, E. Potrebenikova9, D. Prindle29, C. Pruneau30, S. Radomski28, G. Rai15, O. Ravel26, R. L. Ray27, S. V. Razin9,12, D. Reichhold8, J. G. Reid29, F. Retiere15, A. Ridiger18, H. G. Ritter15, J. B. Roberts24, O. V. Rogachevski9, J. L. Romero5, C. Roy26, D. Russ7, V. Rykov30, I. Sakrejda15, J. Sandweiss31, A. C. Saulys2, I. Savin10, J. Schambach27, R. P. Scharenberg23, K. Schweda15, N. Schmitz16, L. S. Schroeder15, A. Schüttauf16, J. Seger8, D. Seliverstov18, P. Seyboth16, E. Shahaliev9, K. E. Shestermanov22, S. S. Shimanskii9, V. S. Shvetcov10, G. Skoro9, N. Smirnov31, R. Snellings15, J. Sowinski12, H. M. Spinka1, B. Srivastava23, E. J. Stephenson12, R. Stock11, A. Stolpovsky30, M. Strikhanov18, B. Stringfellow23, H. Stroebele11, C. Struck11, A. A. P. Suaide30, E. Sugarbaker20, C. Suire13, M. Šumbera9, T. J. M. Symons15, A. Szanto de Toledo25, P. Szarwas28, J. Takahashi25, A. H. Tang14, J. H. Thomas15, V. Tikhomirov18, T. A. Trainor29, S. Trentalange6, M. Tokarev9, M. B. Tonjes17, V. Trofimov18, O. Tsai6, K. Turner2, T. Ullrich2, D. G. Underwood1, G. Van Buren2, A. M. VanderMolen17, A. Vanyashin15, I. M. Vasilevski10, A. N. Vasiliev22, S. E. Vigdor12, S. A. Voloshin30, F. Wang23, H. Ward27, J. W. Watson14, R. Wells20, T. Wenaus2, G. D. Westfall17, C. Whitten, Jr.6, H. Wieman15, R. Willson20, S. W. Wissink12, R. Witt14, N. Xu15, Z. Xu31, A. E. Yakutin22, E. Yamamoto6, J. Yang6, P. Yepes24, A. Yokosawa1, V. I. Yurevich9, Y. V. Zanevski9, I. Zborovský9, W. M. Zhang14, R. Zoulkarneev10, and A. N. Zubarev9 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
3University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
5University of California, Davis, California 95616
6University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
7Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
8Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
9Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
10Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
11University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
12Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
13Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
14Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
15Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
16Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Munich, Germany
17Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
18Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
19City College of New York, New York, New York 10031
20Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
21Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
22Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
23Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
24Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
25Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
26SUBATECH, Nantes, France
27University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
28Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
29University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
30Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
31Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Received 9 May 2001; published 3 August 2001
Two-pion correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN] = 130 GeV have been measured by the STAR (solenoidal tracker at RHIC) detector. The source size extracted by fitting the correlations grows with event multiplicity and decreases with transverse momentum. Anomalously large sizes or emission durations, which have been suggested as signals of quark-gluon plasma formation and rehadronization, are not observed. The Hanbury Brown–Twiss parameters display a weak energy dependence over a broad range in sqrt[sNN].
©2001 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.082301
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.082301
PACS: 25.75.Gz, 25.75.Ld
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