Session CF - Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions and Theory.
ORAL session, Friday morning, October 22
Scripps Conference Room,

[CF.01] Estimates of freeze-out densities from sources imaged in heavy-ion reactions

The source function one obtains from imaging two particle correlations contains much information. Perhaps the most interesting pieces of information come from the behavior of the source function as the separation of emission points goes to zero. From the r\rightarrow 0~fm behavior of the source, one can estimate the average freeze-out density \rho_freeze, the space-averaged phase-space density at freeze-out \left, the average phase-space occupancy at freeze-out \left, and the entropy per nucleon S/A. One can also calculate these quantities directly from a transport model such as RQMD. So using simulated RQMD proton correlations, we examine the reliability of the estimates of these quantities we extract from the source images.

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