https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10404-8
Regular Article - Heavy Ion Physics
The inversion-asymmetry of particle emission source in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Institute of Particle Physics, Huazhong Normal University, 430079, Wuhan, China
Received:
11
April
2007
Accepted:
15
June
2007
Published online:
13
July
2007
The inversion-asymmetry of the particle emission source in relativistic heavy-ion collision under the Bertsch-Pratt convention is discussed and explicitly exhibited by a Monte Carlo model. The Gaussian source function popularly used in the HBT analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is invalid in this case. An inversion-asymmetric source function is suggested. A method for extracting the inversion-asymmetry degree of the source together with the source size from experimental data is proposed.
PACS: 13.85.Hd Inelastic scattering: many-particle final states – / 25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions – / 24.10.Lx Monte Carlo simulations (including hadron and parton cascades and string breaking models) –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2007
