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Phys. Rev. D 62, 114007 (2000) [7 pages]

Mass dependence of HBT correlations in e+e- annihilation

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A. Bialas, M. Kucharczyk, H. Palka, and K. Zalewski
M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kawiory 26a, 30-055 Krakow, Poland

Received 27 July 2000; published 24 October 2000

The mass dependence of the effective source radii, observed in hadronic Z0 decays by several CERN LEP I experiments, is analyzed in a model which assumes proportionality between the four-momentum of a produced particle and the four-vector describing its space-time position at freeze-out. It is shown that this relation (commonly accepted in the description of high-energy collisions) can explain the data, provided all particles are emitted from a “tube” of ∼1 fm in diameter at a constant proper time ∼1.5 fm.

© 2000 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.114007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.114007
PACS:
13.60.Le, 13.60.Rj, 13.65.+i, 25.75.Gz