An inconsistency in the simulation of Bose-Einstein correlations
M. Martin1 - H. Kalechofsky1 - P. Foka1 - U.A. Wiedemann2
1 University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
2 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg,
D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
Received: 11 April 1997 / Revised version: 9 June 1997
Abstract
We show that the formalism commonly used to
implement Bose-Einstein correlations in Monte-Carlo simulations can lead
to values of the two-particle correlator significantly smaller than unity,
in the case of sources with strong position-momentum correlations.
This is more pronounced when the phase space of the emitted particles
is strongly reduced by experimental acceptance or kinematic
analysis selections. It is inconsistent with general principles
from the coherent state formalism according to which the Bose-Einstein
correlator is larger than unity. This inconsistency seems to be rooted in
the fact that quantum mechanical localization properties
are not taken into account properly.
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