Observation of Lifetime Effects in Two-Proton Correlations for Well-Characterized Sources

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-1993

Publication Source

Physical Review Letters

Volume Number

71

Issue Number

18

First Page

2863

Last Page

2866

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

Differences between longitudinal and transverse two-proton correlation functions, consistent with finite lifetime effects, are observed for central Ar36+45Sc collisions at E/A=80 MeV. The correlations between two protons emitted with low total momenta are consistent with emission from a source of Gaussian radius r0≊4.7±0.3 fm and characteristic lifetime τ≊25±15 fm/c.

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