Two-pion interferometry for partially coherent sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a multi-phase transport model

TL;DR

This study uses a multi-phase transport model to analyze two-pion interferometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, demonstrating that partially coherent sources better match experimental data than chaotic sources.

Contribution

It introduces longitudinal and transverse coherent emission lengths into the HBT analysis, improving the modeling of pion emission sources in heavy-ion collisions.

Findings

Partially coherent sources yield HBT results closer to experimental data.

Coherent emission lengths improve the description of pion emission.

Model results align better with data at both RHIC and LHC energies.

Abstract

We perform two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry for the partially coherent pion-emitting sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, using a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model. A longitudinal coherent emission length, as well as a transverse coherent emission length, are introduced to the pion generation coordinates in calculating the HBT correlation functions of the partially coherent sources. We compare the model results with and without coherent emission conditions with experimental data in Au-Au collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200 GeV, and in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$2.76 TeV, and find that the HBT results of the partially coherent sources are closer to the experimental data than those of chaotic sources.