Session P25 - Heavy-Ion Reactions II.
MIXED session, Tuesday morning, April 21
Room C224, Columbus Conv. Center
We develop the new method of optimized discretization for imaging the relative source from two particle correlation functions. In this method, the source resolution depends on the relative particle separation and is adjusted to available data and their errors. We test the method by restoring assumed pp sources and then apply the method to pp and IMF data. In reactions below 100 MeV/nucleon, significant portions of the sources extend to large distances (r < 20 fm). The results from the imaging show the inadequacy of common Gaussian source-parametrizations.