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arxiv: hep-ph/0403274 · v1 · submitted 2004-03-27 · ✦ hep-ph

Interferometry of direct photons in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV

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We present final results from the WA98 experiment which provide first measurements of Bose-Einstein correlations of direct photons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Invariant interferometric radii were extracted in the range $100<K_T<300$ MeV/c and compared to interferometric radii of charged pions. The yield of direct photons for $100<p_T<300$ MeV/c was extracted from the correlation strength parameter and compared to the yield of direct photons measured in WA98 at higher $p_T$ with the statistical subtraction method, and to predictions of a fireball model.

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