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Two-pion interferometry for partially coherent sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a multi-phase transport model

Shi-Yao Wang·Jun-Ting Ye·Wei-Ning Zhang
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We perform two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry for the partially coherent pion-emitting sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model. A longitudinal coherent emission length, as well as a transverse coherent emission length, are introduced to the pion generation coordinates in calculating the HBT correlation functions of the partially coherent sources. We compare the model results with and without coherent emission conditions with experimental data in Au-Au collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200 GeV, and in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$2.76 TeV, and find that the HBT results of the partially coherent sources are closer to the experimental data than those of chaotic sources.

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Shi-Yao Wang, Jun-Ting Ye, Wei-Ning Zhang. 2024-01-30. Two-pion interferometry for partially coherent sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a multi-phase transport model. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.109.014912

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