@article{dbc8cb687252408eb705b565bcee025d,
title = "Two- and three-pion quantum statistics correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider",
abstract = "Correlations induced by quantum statistics are sensitive to the spatiotemporal extent as well as dynamics of particle-emitting sources in heavy-ion collisions. In addition, such correlations can be used to search for the presence of a coherent component of pion production. Two- and three-pion correlations of same and mixed charge are measured at low relative momentum to estimate the coherent fraction of charged pions in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with ALICE. The genuine three-pion quantum statistics correlation is found to be suppressed relative to the two-pion correlation based on the assumption of fully chaotic pion emission. The suppression is observed to decrease with triplet momentum. The observed suppression at low triplet momentum may correspond to a coherent fraction in charged-pion emission of 23%±8%",
author = "B. Abelev and J. Adam and D. Adamov{\'a} and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and Rinella, {G. Aglieri} and M. Agnello and Agocs, {A. G.} and A. Agostinelli and N. Agrawal and Z. Ahammed and N. Ahmad and Masoodi, {A. Ahmad} and I. Ahmed and Ahn, {S. U.} and Ahn, {S. A.} and S. Basu and Bertens, {R. A.} and C. Bianchin and S. Bjelogrlic and M. Botje and A. Caliva and M. Chojnacki and P. Christakoglou and T. Chujo and {De Rooij}, R. and A. Dobrin and A. Dubla and A. Grelli and M. Krzewicki and Kuijer, {P. G.} and Pointe, {S. L La} and E. Leogrande and Lodato, {D. F.} and G. Luparello and A. Mischke and S. Muhuri and G. Nooren and {Da Silva}, {A. C Oliveira} and T. Peitzmann and N. Poljak and M. Reicher and E. Rocco and Manso, {A. Rodriguez} and Snellings, {R. J M} and D. Thomas and {Van Leeuwen}, M. and M. Veldhoen and M. Verweij and H. Yang and Y. Zhou and {ALICE Collaboration}",
year = "2014",
month = feb,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevC.89.024911",
language = "English",
volume = "89",
journal = "Physical Review. C, Nuclear physics",
issn = "0556-2813",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",
}