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(Strange) Meson Interferometry at RHIC
We make predictions for the kaon interferometry measurements in Au+Au
collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A first order phase
transition from a thermalized Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) to a gas of hadrons is
assumed for the transport calculations. The fraction of kaons that are directly
emitted from the phase boundary is considerably enhanced at large transverse
momenta K_T ~ 1 GeV/c. In this kinematic region, the sensitivity of the
R_out/R_side ratio to the QGP-properties is enlarged. Here, the results of the
1-dimensional correlation analysis are presented. The extracted interferometry
radii, depending on , are not unusually large and are strongly affected by
momentum resolution effects.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure