New method to detect rotation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
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2014-03-31Metadata
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.89.034916Abstract
With increasing beam energies the angular momentum of the fireball in peripheral heavy-ion collisions increases, and the proposed differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss analysis is able to estimate this angular momentum quantitatively. The method detects specific space-time correlation patterns, which are connected to rotation.