# Quark Matter 2014 - XXIV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

19-24 May 2014
Europe/Zurich timezone

## Measurement of the space-time extent of the emission source in d+Au and Au+Au collisions through charged pion interferometry at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV

20 May 2014, 16:30
2h

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Board: I-01
Poster Correlations and Fluctuations

### Speaker

Nuggehalli Ajitanand (SUNY Stony Brook)

### Description

The recent observation of azimuthal correlations in p+Pb collisions at LHC is consistent with an interpretation as either an initial state gluon saturation effect or the expansion dynamics of a QGP like medium. It is well known that the latter process is characterized by strong final state re-scattering effects. In this work two-pion interferometry measurements in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV are performed to extract and compare the Gaussian source radii Rout, Rside and Rlong, which characterize the space-time extent of the emission sources. The comparisons which are carried out as a function of collision centrality and the mean transverse momentum for pion pairs, indicate strikingly similar patterns for the d+Au and Au+Au systems. They also indicate linear dependence of Rside on the initial traverse geometric size, as well as a smaller freeze-out size for the d+Au system. These patterns point to the important role of final-state re-scattering effects in the reaction dynamics of d+Au collisions.
On behalf of collaboration: PHENIX

### Primary author

Nuggehalli Ajitanand (SUNY Stony Brook)

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