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In a recent article published in this journal it is stated that a specific three-pion effect is found in an experiment studying Au+Au collisions. The aim of this note is to show that these new data are compatible with two-pion effects leaving no room for a specific three-pion effect. This is in accordance with three-pion interferometry results from pp and e+ e− collisions at a high energy.
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Lörstad, B. Note on Bose-Einstein correlations of three pions in symmetric heavy-ion interactions at 650 a MeV. Z. Physik A - Atomic Nuclei 334, 355–356 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01284563
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