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Kaon interferometry in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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K+K+ and KK correlations from S+Pb collisions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon and K+K+ correlations from p+Pb collisions at 450 GeV/c per nucleon, are presented as measured by the focusing spectrometer of the NA44 experiment at CERN. Multidimensional fits are performed in order to characterize the kaon-emission volume, which is found to be smaller than the pion-emission volume.

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Beker, H., Bøggild, H., Boissevain, J. et al. Kaon interferometry in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 64, 209–217 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01557392

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