@article{7d15ca520b1948d18f4ef07c01dacc00,
title = "Nuclear coalescence from correlation functions",
abstract = "We derive a simple formula relating the cross section for light cluster production (defined via a coalescence factor) to the two-proton correlation function measured in heavy-ion collisions. The formula generalizes earlier coalescence-correlation relations found by Scheibl & Heinz and by Mrowczynski for Gaussian source models. It motivates joint experimental analyses of Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) and cluster yield measurements in existing and future data sets.",
author = "Kfir Blum and Masahiro Takimoto",
note = "We thank Francesca Bellini, Alexander Kalweit, and Urs Wiedemann for discussions and JinJin Pan and Kenny Ng for ongoing collaboration on data analysis related to this work. We are grateful to Ulrich Heinz for discussions and especially for helping us find our way in the literature on coalescence and HBT in heavy-ion collisions. K.B. is incumbent of the Dewey David Stone and Harry Levine career development chair. The work of K.B. and M.T. was supported by Grant 1937/12 from the I-CORE program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation and by Grant 1507/16 from the Israel Science Foundation.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "18",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.044913",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
volume = "99",
journal = "Physical Review C",
issn = "2469-9985",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "4",
}