Bose–Einstein correlations in hadron-pairs from lepto-production on nuclei ranging from hydrogen to xenon

Airapetian, A. et al. (2015) Bose–Einstein correlations in hadron-pairs from lepto-production on nuclei ranging from hydrogen to xenon. European Physical Journal C, 75(8), 361. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3566-7)

Abstract

Bose–Einstein correlations of like-sign charged hadrons produced in deep-inelastic electron and positron scattering are studied in the HERMES experiment using nuclear targets of 1H, 2H, 3He, 4He, N, Ne, Kr, and Xe. A Gaussian approach is used to parametrize a two-particle correlation function determined from events with at least two charged hadrons of the same sign charge. This correlation function is compared to two different empirical distributions that do not include the Bose–Einstein correlations. One distribution is derived from unlike-sign hadron pairs, and the second is derived from mixing like-sign pairs from different events. The extraction procedure used simulations incorporating the experimental setup in order to correct the results for spectrometer acceptance effects, and was tested using the distribution of unlike-sign hadron pairs. Clear signals of Bose–Einstein correlations for all target nuclei without a significant variation with the nuclear target mass are found. Also, no evidence for a dependence on the invariant mass W of the photon-nucleon system is found when the results are compared to those of previous experiments.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mahon, Dr David and Murray, Dr Morgan and Burns, Mr Jonathan and Kaiser, Professor Ralf and Lehmann, Dr Inti and Seitz, Dr Bjoern and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Airapetian, A., Akopov, N., Akopov, Z., Aschenauer, E. C., Augustyniak, W., Avakian, R., Avetissian, A., Avetisyan, E., Belostotski, S., Bianchi, N., Blok, H. P., Borissov, A., Bryzgalov, V., Burns, J., Capiluppi, M., Capitani, G. P., Cisbani, E., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P. F., Deconinck, W., De Leo, R., De Sanctis, E., Diefenthaler, M., Di Nezza, P., Düren, M., Elbakian, G., Ellinghaus, F., Etzelmüller, E., Fabbri, R., Fantoni, A., Felawka, L., Frullani, S., Gapienko, G., Gapienko, V., Garay García, J., Garibaldi, F., Gavrilov, G., Gharibyan, V., Giordano, F., Gliske, S., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Imazu, Y., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H. E., Joosten, S., Kaiser, R., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Kisselev, A., Korotkov, V., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Krivokhijine, V. G., Lagamba, L., Lapikás, L., Lehmann, I., Lenisa, P., López Ruiz, A., Lorenzon, W., Lu, X.-G., Ma, B.-Q., Mahon, D., Makins, N. C. R., Mao, Y., Marianski, B., Martinez de la Ossa, A., Marukyan, H., Miyachi, Y., Movsisyan, A., Murray, M., Mussgiller, A., Nappi, E., Naryshkin, Y., Nass, A., Negodaev, M., Nowak, W.-D., Pappalardo, L. L., Perez-Benito, R., Petrosyan, A., Reimer, P. E., Reolon, A. R., Riedl, C., Rith, K., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, A., Rubin, J., Ryckbosch, D., Salomatin, Y., Schäfer, A., Schnell, G., Seitz, B., Shibata, T.-A., Shutov, V., Stahl, M., Stancari, M., Statera, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Truty, R., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., Van Haarlem, Y., Van Hulse, C., Veretennikov, D., Vikhrov, V., Vilardi, I., Wang, S., Yaschenko, S., Ye, Z., Yen, S., Zihlmann, B., and Zupranski, P.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: European Physical Journal C
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• ISSN (Online): 1434-6052
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2015 The Authors
• First Published: First published in European Physical Journal C 75(8):361
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