20–27 juil. 2011
Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Three-dimensional Kaon Source Imaging from STAR Experiment at RHIC

21 juil. 2011, 15:30
15m
Lesdiguières (Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo)

Lesdiguières

Alpes Congrès - Alpexpo

Parallel session talk Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions

Orateur

Dr Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR)

Description

Three-dimensional source imaging techniques in conjunction with detailed model comparisons have shown the viability of disentangling the spatio-temporal information contained in two-pion interferometric measurements from ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. This has led to the observation of non-Gaussian tails in the 3D pion source function and the extraction of finite pion emission duration at RHIC energies. The STAR Collaboration has recently also extracted the 3D kaon source function from a high statistics two-kaon interferometric measurement from Au+Au collisions at sqrt_sNN = 200 GeV. Such measurement offers a window into the fireball freeze-out dynamics with a much cleaner probe with smaller resonance decay contributions than for the pion case. The extracted space-time characteristics are compared with those obtained from pion analysis. The implications with respect to the validity of the Buda-Lund hydrodynamic expansion scenario are discussed.

Auteur principal

Dr Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR)

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