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On the Origin of the Trigger-Angle Dependence of the Ridge Structure

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The origin of the trigger-angle dependence of the ridge structure in two-hadron long-range correlations, as observed at RHIC, is discussed as due to an interplay between the elliptic flow caused by the initial state global geometry and flow produced by fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6935,
  title  = {On the Origin of the Trigger-Angle Dependence of the Ridge Structure},
  author = {Yogiro Hama and Rone P. G. Andrade and Frederique Grassi and Wei-Liang Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6935},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, prepared for ISMD 2011 Proceedings