Phys. Rev. Lett.
93,
012301
(2004)
[6 pages]
Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown–Twiss Interferometry in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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J. Adams3, C. Adler13, M. M. Aggarwal27, Z. Ahammed40, J. Amonett19, B. D. Anderson19, D. Arkhipkin12, G. S. Averichev11, S. K. Badyal18, J. Balewski15, O. Barannikova30,11, L. S. Barnby3, J. Baudot17, S. Bekele26, V. V. Belaga11, R. Bellwied43, J. Berger13, B. I. Bezverkhny45, S. Bhardwaj31, A. K. Bhati27, H. Bichsel42, A. Billmeier43, L. C. Bland2, C. O. Blyth3, B. E. Bonner32, M. Botje25, A. Boucham36, A. Brandin23, A. Bravar2, R. V. Cadman1, X. Z. Cai35, H. Caines45, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez2, J. Carroll20, J. Castillo20, D. Cebra5, P. Chaloupka10, S. Chattopadhyay40, H. F. Chen34, Y. Chen6, S. P. Chernenko11, M. Cherney9, A. Chikanian45, W. Christie2, J. P. Coffin17, T. M. Cormier43, J. G. Cramer42, H. J. Crawford4, D. Das40, S. Das40, A. A. Derevschikov29, L. Didenko2, T. Dietel13, W. J. Dong6, X. Dong34,20, J. E. Draper5, F. Du45, A. K. Dubey16, V. B. Dunin11, J. C. Dunlop2, M. R. Dutta Majumdar40, V. Eckardt21, L. G. Efimov11, V. Emelianov23, J. Engelage4, G. 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Watson19, J. C. Webb15, R. Wells26, G. D. Westfall22, C. Whitten, Jr.6, H. Wieman20, R. Willson26, S. W. Wissink15, R. Witt45, J. Wood6, J. Wu34, N. Xu20, Z. Xu2, Z. Z. Xu34, E. Yamamoto20, P. Yepes32, V. I. Yurevich11, B. Yuting25, Y. V. Zanevski11, H. Zhang45,2, W. M. Zhang19, Z. P. Zhang34, Z. P. Zhaomin34, Z. P. Zizong34, P. A. Żołnierczuk15, R. Zoulkarneev12, J. Zoulkarneeva12, and A. N. Zubarev11 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
3University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
4University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
5University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
6University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
7California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
8Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
9Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
10Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, Řež/Prague, Czech Republic
11Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
12Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
13University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
14Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
15Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
16Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
17Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
18University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
19Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
20Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
21Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
22Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
23Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow Russia
24City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
25NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
26The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
27Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
28Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
29Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
30Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
31University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
32Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
33Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
34University of Science & Technology of China, Anhui 230027, China
35Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
36SUBATECH, Nantes, France
37Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
38University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
39Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
40Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
41Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
42University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
43Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
44Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan, 430079 China
45Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
46University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
Received 8 December 2003; published 30 June 2004
We present the results of a systematic study of the shape of the pion distribution in coordinate space at freeze-out in Au+Au collisions at BNL RHIC using two-pion Hanbury Brown–Twiss (HBT) interferometry. Oscillations of the extracted HBT radii versus emission angle indicate sources elongated perpendicular to the reaction plane. The results indicate that the pressure and expansion time of the collision system are not sufficient to completely quench its initial shape.
© 2004 The American Physical Society
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.012301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.012301
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