Abstract
The field of high-energy nuclear collisions has witnessed a surge of interest in the role played by hydrodynamic fluctuations. Hydrodynamic fluctuations may have significant effects on matter created in heavy-ion accelerators whose trajectories in the plane of temperature versus chemical potential pass near a possible critical endpoint. We extend previous studies to explore the impact of these fluctuations on Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry of identical hadrons. With an appropriately defined correlation function we find that the fluctuations increase substantially when the trajectory passes near a critical endpoint and also displays a damped oscillatory behavior in the rapidity distance Δy unlike that originating from initial-state fluctuations.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 044910 |
Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 95 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 24 2017 |
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