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Title: Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS)

Abstract

This thesis contains the setup, analysis and results of experiment E684H Multi-Pion Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions''. The goals of the original proposal were: (1) To initiate the use of the HISS facility in the study of central Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC). (2) To perform a second generation experiment for the detailed study of the pion source in RHIC. The first generation experiments, implied by the second goal above, refer to pion correlation studies which the Riverside group had performed at the LBL streamer chamber. The major advantage offered by moving the pion correlation studies to HISS is that, being an electronic detector system, as opposed to the Streamer Chamber which is a visual detector, one can greatly increase the statistics for a study of this sort. An additional advantage is that once one has written the necessary detector and physics analysis code to do a particular type of study, the study may be extended to investigate the systematics, with much less effort and in a relatively short time. This paper discusses the Physics motivation for this experiment, the experimental setup and detectors used, the pion correlation analysis, the results, and the conclusions possible future directions for pionmore » studies at HISS. If one is not interested in all the details of the experiment, I believe that by reading the sections on intensity interferometry, the section the fitting of the correlation function and the systematic corrections applied, and the results section, one will get a fairly complete synopsis of the experiment.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
6746381
Report Number(s):
LBL-28986
ON: DE90014181; TRN: 90-027646
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.). Thesis submitted to the Univ. of California, Davis
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DETECTION; DRIFT CHAMBERS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PION REACTIONS; CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS; FUNCTIONS; HADRON REACTIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MESON REACTIONS; MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; 653003* - Nuclear Theory- Nuclear Reactions & Scattering

Citation Formats

Christie, Jr, W B. Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS). United States: N. p., 1990. Web. doi:10.2172/6746381.
Christie, Jr, W B. Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6746381
Christie, Jr, W B. 1990. "Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6746381. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6746381.
@article{osti_6746381,
title = {Pion correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at Heavy Ion Spectrometer Systems (HISS)},
author = {Christie, Jr, W B},
abstractNote = {This thesis contains the setup, analysis and results of experiment E684H Multi-Pion Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions''. The goals of the original proposal were: (1) To initiate the use of the HISS facility in the study of central Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC). (2) To perform a second generation experiment for the detailed study of the pion source in RHIC. The first generation experiments, implied by the second goal above, refer to pion correlation studies which the Riverside group had performed at the LBL streamer chamber. The major advantage offered by moving the pion correlation studies to HISS is that, being an electronic detector system, as opposed to the Streamer Chamber which is a visual detector, one can greatly increase the statistics for a study of this sort. An additional advantage is that once one has written the necessary detector and physics analysis code to do a particular type of study, the study may be extended to investigate the systematics, with much less effort and in a relatively short time. This paper discusses the Physics motivation for this experiment, the experimental setup and detectors used, the pion correlation analysis, the results, and the conclusions possible future directions for pion studies at HISS. If one is not interested in all the details of the experiment, I believe that by reading the sections on intensity interferometry, the section the fitting of the correlation function and the systematic corrections applied, and the results section, one will get a fairly complete synopsis of the experiment.},
doi = {10.2172/6746381},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6746381}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990},
month = {Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990}
}