Quantum Clan Model description of Bose Einstein Correlations

Abstract

We propose a novel numerical method of modelling Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) observed among identical (bosonic) particles produced in multiparticle production reactions. We argue that the most natural approach is to work directly in the momentum space in which the Bose statistics of secondaries reveals itself in their tendency to bunch in a specific way in the available phase space. Because such procedure is essentially identical to the clan model of multiparticle distributions proposed some time ago, therefore we call it the Quantum Clan Model.

Comments: Talk given at 4th Budapest Winter School On Eavy Ion Physics (2004), 6 pages, two figures; version published in APH (HIP)