The role of the quantum dispersion in the Coulomb correction of Bose-Einstein correlations

Abstract

The time dependent Schroedinger equation for two identical and charged pions is solved using wavepacket states. It is shown that the expected Coulomb distortion in the momentum correlation function is obliterated by the dispersion of the localized states, and therefore becomes unobservable.

Comments: 10 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, 0.2 Mb postscript, submitted to Phys. Lett. B