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Quantum Treatment of Multiple Scattering and Collective Flow in HBT
Cheuk-Yin Wong Oak Ridge National Laboratory
& University of Tennessee
Kromeriz, Czech Republic August 17, 2005
• The pion environment after the QGP phase transition
• Why quantum treatment?
• The path integral method to study multiple collisions and collective flow in HBT
• Conclusions C.Y.Wong, J. Phys. G 29, 2151 (2003) C.Y.Wong, J. Phys. G 30, S1053 (2004) W. N. Zhang et al., Chin. Phys. Lett. 21, 1918 (2004)
Pion environment after the QGP phase transitionPion density ~ 0.05-0.3 /fm3 Pion matter is dense at high T.
Pion energy ~ 0.3-0.5 GeVPions are energetic.
Average pi-pi collision energy ~ 0.4-0.7 GeV.
Right after chemical freeze-out, pi-pi collisions are frequent and are predominantly elastic.
We are interested in the dynamics of 2 identical pions in such an environment after chemical freeze-out.
Conventional HBT Assumptions
• As the source expands after chemical freeze-out, the detected pions collide with other pions in the medium when they travel to the freeze-out points.
• As a result of these random collisions, the initial source evolves into a chaotic source at freeze-out.
• The source observed in an HBT measurement is the chaotic freeze-out source, and the HBT radii will correspond to those of the freeze-out configuration.
Why we need to re-examine basic HBT assumptions • Because the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss intensity
interferometry is purely a quantum-mechanical phenomenon, the dynamics of the interfering pions must be investigated within a quantum-mechanical framework.
• We need to study the interference of waves using probability amplitudes, instead of the conventional description of incoherent hadron cascades in terms of probabilities and cross sections.
• Pion probability amplitude is best described by Feynman’s path integral method.
Path integral method to study HBT
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elastic scattering dominates. The pion amplitudes can be described by the Feynman path integral method.
2. The source measured by HBT is the initial source with momenta shifted by the mean field and the initial source distribution modified by phase shift functions.
3. The real parts of the phase shift functions tend to cancel and the imaginary parts of the collision phase shifts lead to an absorption due to the π+π–π0π0 reaction in the I=0 channel. There is a secondary extended source due to the inverse π0π0 π+π– reaction.
4. If π+π– scattering dominated by the I=1 elastic scattering channel, absorption is relatively small and the HBT source is closer to the chemical freeze-out source with shifted momenta.
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