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Deciphering nonfemtoscopic two-pion correlations in $p+p$ collisions with simple analytical models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

A simple model of nonfemtoscopic particle correlations in proton-proton collisions is proposed. The model takes into account correlations induced by the conservation laws as well as correlations induced by minijets. It reproduces well the two-pion nonfemtoscopic correlations of like-sign and unlike-sign pions in proton-proton collision events at s=900\sqrt{s} = 900 GeV analyzed by the ALICE Collaboration. We also argue that similar nonfemtoscopic correlations can appear in the hydrodynamic picture with event-by-event fluctuating nonsymmetric initial conditions that are typically associated with nonzero higher-order flow harmonics.

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@article{arxiv.1106.5120,
  title  = {Deciphering nonfemtoscopic two-pion correlations in $p+p$ collisions with simple analytical models},
  author = {S. V. Akkelin and Yu. M. Sinyukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.5120},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 10 figures, misprints corrected