Three-pion interferometry results from central Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV/c.

M M Aggarwal,T Chujo,C Blume,C Klein-Bösing,C Barlag,G Stefanek,K Karpio,T K Nayak,T Bernier,D Stüken,J Urbahn,R Cherbatchev,W Pinganaud,G R Young,H Büsching,R Kamermans,A Maximov,K B Bhalla,M Ippolitov,K Söderström,R Higuchi,P Kulinich,A Nianine,G Mgebrichvili,U Von Poblotzki,Z Böröcz,F J M Geurts,B W Kolb,K Enosawa,S K Badyal,M R Dutta Majumdar,A Lebedev,S K Gupta,R Raniwala,R Santo,S Kees,T Siemiarczuk,K Kurita,V S Bhatia,R Bock,D Bucher,H Schlagheck,E.-M Bohne,H Delagrange,K Yagi,S Raniwala,H Naef,S K Nayak,A Claussen,A Buijs,A C Das,T Peitzmann,D P Mahapatra,S Vörös,S Garpman,E Stenlund,H Kalechofsky,K Karadjev,B C Sinha,L Luquin,M Pachr,Y P Viyogi,M P Decowski,T C Awes,K El Chenawi,A Agnihotri,B K Nandi,J M Rubio,S Pavliouk,N Solomey,T Krümpel,L Rosselet,B Batiounia,C Roy,S Neumaier,P Steinberg,R Glasow,G C Mishra,L Tykarski,S Chattopadhyay,N Slavine,Y Miake,O Gavrishchuk,S Bathe,Yusuke Miyamoto ,Tomas Svensson ,Y Yokota,F Retière ,P Nomokonov,T H Shah,Masahiro Kurata ,F Plášil ,N Kameswara Rao ,[No Value] Roufanov ,Z Ahammed,Susumu Sato ,D Silvermyr,A.l.s Angelis ,S Kato,[No Value] Arefiev ,N Nikitine ,Tushar K Ghosh ,L Carlén ,[No Value] Kosarev ,[No Value] Doubovik ,P Dönni ,Sabine Knoche ,N Van Eijndhoven ,P Nilsson,M L Purschke,S Nishimura,S Fokin,D Mukhopadhyay ,[No Value] Manko ,[No Value] Otterlund ,J Nystrand,S.m Eliseev ,N Kuzmin,S Sörensen ,P W Stankus ,Ec Van Der Pijll ,P.v.k.s Baba ,D P Morrison ,I Hřivnáčová ,Gj Van Nieuwenhuizen ,[No Value] Koutcheryaev ,[No Value] Astakhov ,[No Value] Langbein ,K Reygers,Trivedi ,H.h Gutbrod ,S Dutt,Michel Martin ,J Rak,Yy Lee ,H.-Å Gustafsson ,Mf Mir ,[No Value] Sibiriak ,P Foka,S Sambyal ,F.e Obenshain ,Ganti ,B Mohanty,A Vodopianov,[No Value] Chalyshev ,V.s Ramamurthy ,M Šumbera ,[No Value] Petracek ,H Löhner,B Wysłouch,А Виноградов ,S Nikolaev,A Öskarsson ,G Shabratova,M J Mora ,[No Value] Djordjadze ,K.‐H Kampert ,[No Value] Antonenko ,А Куглер ,Y Schütz ,G Roland,A Tsvetkov,H Sako,B.n Gus'kov ,G Martı́nez ,[No Value] Avdeitchikov

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.2895

Abstract

Three-particle correlations have been measured for identified pi(-) from central 158A GeV Pb+Pb collisions by the WA98 experiment at CERN. A substantial contribution of the genuine three-body correlation has been found as expected for a mainly chaotic and symmetric source.

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