Three-pion interferometry results from central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c

Three-Pion Interferometry Results from Central Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 A GeV/c M.M. Aggarwal, 1 A. Agnihotri, 2 Z. Ahammed, 3 A.L.S. Angelis, 4 V. Antonenko, 5 V. Arefiev, 6 V. Astakhov, 6 V. Avdeitchikov, 6 T.C. Awes, 7 P.V.K.S. Baba, 8 S.K. Badyal, 8 C. Barlag, 9 S. Bathe, 9 B. Batiounia, 6 T. Bernier, 10 K.B. Bhalla, 2 V.S. Bhatia, 1 C. Blume, 9 R. Bock, 11 E.-M. Bohne, 9 Z. B¨ r¨ cz, 9 D. Bucher, 9 o o 12 H. B¨ sching, 9 L. Carlen, 13 V. Chalyshev, 6 S. Chattopadhyay, 3 R. Cherbatchev, 5 T. Chujo, 14 A. Buijs, u 9 A.C. Das, 3 M.P. Decowski, 18 H. Delagrange, 10 V. Djordjadze, 6 P. Donni, 4 I. Doubovik, 5 A. Claussen, S. Dutt, 8 M.R. Dutta Majumdar, 3 K. El Chenawi, 13 S. Eliseev, 15 K. Enosawa, 14 P. Foka, 4 S. Fokin, 5 M.S. Ganti, 3 S. Garpman, 13 O. Gavrishchuk, 6 F.J.M. Geurts, 12 T.K. Ghosh, 16 R. Glasow, 9 S. K.Gupta, 2 B. Guskov, 6 H. ˚ .Gustafsson, 13 H. H.Gutbrod, 10 R. Higuchi, 14 I. Hrivnacova, 15 M. Ippolitov, 5 H. Kalechofsky, 4 A R. Kamermans, 12 K.-H. Kampert, 9 K. Karadjev, 5 K. Karpio, 17 S. Kato, 14 S. Kees, 9 C. Klein-B¨ sing, 9 o 9 B. W. Kolb, 11 I. Kosarev, 6 I. Koutcheryaev, 5 T. Kr¨ mpel, 9 A. Kugler, 15 P. Kulinich, 18 S. Knoche, u M. Kurata, 14 K. Kurita, 14 N. Kuzmin, 6 I. Langbein, 11 A. Lebedev, 5 Y.Y. Lee, 11 H. L¨ hner, 16 L. Luquin, 10 o 19 V. Manko, 5 M. Martin, 4 G. Mart´ 10 A. Maximov, 6 G. Mgebrichvili, 5 Y. Miake, 14 D.P. Mahapatra, inez, 8 G.C. Mishra, 19 Y. Miyamoto, 14 B. Mohanty, 19 M.-J. Mora, 10 D. Morrison, 20 D. S. Mukhopadhyay, 3 Md.F. Mir, H. Naef, 4 B. K. Nandi, 19 S. K. Nayak, 10 T. K. Nayak, 3 S. Neumaier, 11 A. Nianine, 5 V. Nikitine, 6 S. Nikolaev, 5 P. Nilsson, 13 S. Nishimura, 14 P. Nomokonov, 6 J. Nystrand, 13 F.E. Obenshain, 20 A. Oskarsson, 13 I. Otterlund, 13 M. Pachr, 15 S. Pavliouk, 6 T. Peitzmann, 9 V. Petracek, 15 W. Pinganaud, 10 F. Plasil, 7 U. von Poblotzki, 9 M.L. Purschke, 11 J. Rak, 15 R. Raniwala, 2 S. Raniwala, 2 V.S. Ramamurthy, 19 N.K. Rao, 8 F. Retiere, 10 K. Reygers, 9 G. Roland, 18 L. Rosselet, 4 I. Roufanov, 6 C. Roy, 10 J.M. Rubio, 4 H. Sako, 14 S.S. Sambyal, 8 R. Santo, 9 S. Sato, 14 H. Schlagheck, 9 H.-R. Schmidt, 11 Y. Schutz, 10 G. Shabratova, 6 T.H. Shah, 8 I. Sibiriak, 5 T. Siemiarczuk, 17 D. Silvermyr, 13 B.C. Sinha, 3 N. Slavine, 6 K. S¨ derstr¨ m, 13 o o N. Solomey, 4 S.P. Sorensen, 7,20 P. Stankus, 7 G. Stefanek, 17 P. Steinberg, 18 E. Stenlund, 13 D. St¨ ken, 9 u M. Sumbera, 15 T. Svensson, 13 M.D. Trivedi, 3 A. Tsvetkov, 5 L. Tykarski, 17 J. Urbahn, 11 E.C.v.d. Pijll, 12 N.v. Eijndhoven, 12 G.J.v. Nieuwenhuizen, 18 A. Vinogradov, 5 Y.P. Viyogi, 3 A. Vodopianov, 6 S. V¨ r¨ s, 4 o o B. Wyslouch, 18 K. Yagi, 14 Y. Yokota, 14 G.R. Young 7 (WA98 collaboration) University of Panjab, Chandigarh 160014, India University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India 3 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta 700 064, India 4 University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4,Switzerland 5 RRC Kurchatov Institute, RU-123182 Moscow, Russia 6 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia 7 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372, USA 8 University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India 9 University of M¨ nster, D-48149 M¨ nster, Germany u u 10 SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines, Nantes, France