Is it possible to reconstruct the freeze-out duration of heavy-ion collisions using tomography?
Abstract
Description
We investigate what conditions allow us to extract the relative distribution of freeze-out space and time points in an arbitrary reference frame using tomography and source imaging. The source function may be extracted from the two-particle correlation function measured in heavy-ion collisions using imaging techniques. This imaged source function is related to the relative distribution of freeze-out space and time points through a generalization of the Radon transform found in tomography. Using tomography, the imaged source function may be converted into the relative freeze-out distribution in the frame of interest. We describe how the tomography may be performed in practice.
11 pages, uses RevTeX. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
11 pages, uses RevTeX. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett