Correlations and Fluctuations in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2016-09-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular for heavy projectile and target. The interplay between cross-section fluctuations, from color transparency and opacity, and nuclear correlations is calculated and found to be able to account for large fluctuations in transverse energy spectra. Numerical implementation of correlations and cross-section fluctuations in Monte-Carlo codes is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9502038,
title = {Correlations and Fluctuations in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions},
author = {Gordon Baym and B. Blättel and L. L. Frankfurt and H. Heiselberg and M. Strikman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9502038},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
30 pages, in Revtex, plus 4 figures. Figures and preprint can be obtained by mailing address to: [email protected]