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Ridges and Soft Jet Components in Untriggered Di-hadron Correlations in Pb+Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-04-19 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study untriggered di-hadron correlations in Pb+Pb at 2.76 TeV, based on an event-by-event simulation of a hydrodynamic expansion starting from flux tube initial conditions. The correlation function shows interesting structures as a function of the pseudorapidity difference Δη\Delta\eta and the azimuthal angle difference Δϕ\Delta\phi, in particular comparing different centralities. We can clearly identify a peak-like nearside structure associated with very low momentum components of jets for peripheral collisions, which disappears towards central collisions. On the other hand, a very broad ridge structure from asymmetric flow seen at central collisions, gets smaller and finally disappears towards peripheral collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1104.3269,
  title  = {Ridges and Soft Jet Components in Untriggered Di-hadron Correlations in Pb+Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV},
  author = {K. Werner and Iu. Karpenko and K. Mikhailov and T. Pierog},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3269},
  year   = {2011}
}