Hanbury–Brown–Twiss measurements at large rapidity separations, or can we measure the proton radius in p-A collisions?
Autor: | Néstor Armesto, Guillaume Beuf, Tolga Altinoluk, Michael Lublinsky, Alex Kovner |
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Přispěvatelé: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Física de Partículas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Nuclear Theory Proton 010308 nuclear & particles physics Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect FOS: Physical sciences Radius 01 natural sciences lcsh:QC1-999 Color-glass condensate Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) Nuclear physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Transverse plane High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) Pair production 0103 physical sciences Particle Rapidity 010306 general physics Nuclear Experiment lcsh:Physics |
Zdroj: | Physics Letters B, Vol 752, Iss C, Pp 113-121 (2016) Physics Letters B Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela instname |
ISSN: | 1873-2445 0370-2693 |
Popis: | We point out that current calculations of inclusive two-particle correlations in p-A collisions based on the Color Glass Condensate approach exhibit a contribution from Hanbury-Brown-Twiss correlations. These HBT correlations are quite distinct from the standard ones, in that they are apparent for particles widely separated in rapidity. The transverse size of the emitter which is reflected in these correlations is the gluonic size of the proton. This raises an interesting possibility of measuring the proton size directly by the HBT effect of particle pairs produced in p-A collisions. Comment: 11 pages, 3 eps figures; v2: comments, discussions, references and acknowledgements added, conclusions unchanged, final version |
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