Seminar in Hadronic Physics

The Long Slow Death of the HBT Puzzle

Scott Pratt

Michigan State University

Femtoscopic two-particle correlation measurements provide detailed space-time information of the evolution of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. For analyses of data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, these measurements have shown more rapid and sudden explosions than were anticipated. I will review the techniques of femtoscopy and show how these analyses have led us to better understand details of the explosion dynamics and of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.