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Particles and Fields
Eur. Phys. J. C 9, 275-281
DOI 10.1007/s100529900024

Partial coherence in the core-halo picture of Bose-Einstein n-particle correlations

T. Csörgo - B. Lörstad2 - J. Schmidt-Sørensen2 - A. Ster3

1 MTA KFKI RMKI, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
2 Physics Department, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
3 MTA KFKI MFA, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest 114, Hungary

Received: 18 December 1998 / Published online: 20 May 1999

Abstract
We study the influence of a possible coherent component in the boson source on the two-, three- and n-particle correlation functions in a generalized core-halo-type boson-emitting source. In particular, a simple formula is presented for the strength of the n-particle correlation functions for such systems. Graph rules are obtained to evaluate the correlation functions of arbitrarily high order. The importance of an experimental determination of the 4-th and 5-th order Bose-Einstein correlation function is emphasized.


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