Intermittent behaviour of bremsstrahlung photons produced in hadronic collisions at very high energies

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01483-7

Physics Letters B

Volume 368, Issues 1–2, 25 January 1996, Pages 179-186

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Abstract

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss correlations of bremsstrahlung photons produced in hadronic collisions at very high energies show intermittent features. The phenomenon is due to large logitudinal dimensions of the space-time evolution of hadronic collisions and to the fact that the rapidity of a bremsstrahlung photon need not be close to the rapidity of the charged particle radiating the photon.

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Intermittent behaviour of bremsstrahlung photons produced in hadronic collisions at very high energies

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