DOI 10.1007/s100520000331
Coulomb wave function corrections for n-particle Bose-Einstein correlations
E. O. Alt1 - T. Csörgo2 - B. Lörstad3 - J. Schmidt-Sørensen3
1 Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, 55099
Mainz, Germany
2 MTA KFKI RMKI, POB 49, 1525 Budapest 114, Hungary
3 Physics Department, Lund University,
POB 118,
221 00 Lund,
Sweden
Received: 24 November 1999 / Published online: 17 March 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000
Abstract
The effect of multi-particle Coulomb
final state interactions on higher-order intensity correlations
is determined in general, based on
a scattering wave function which is a solution of the n-body
Coulomb Schrödinger equation in (a large part of) the asymptotic
region of n-body configuration space.
In particular, we study Coulomb effects on the n-particle
Bose-Einstein correlation functions of similarly charged
particles and remove a systematic error as big as 100%
from higher-order multi-particle Bose-Einstein correlation
functions.
Copyright Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2000
