Bose-Einstein or HBT correlations in high energy reactions

Abstract

Concepts of thermalization and hydrodynamical behavior are applied from time to time to e+e-, hadron+hadron and heavy ion collisions. These applications are scrutinized paying attention to particle multiplicities, spectra, and Bose-Einstein correlations in particular. Can hydrodynamics describe these data?

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at ISMD08, the XXXVIIIth International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, 15-20 September 2008, DESY, Hamburg, Germany