Transverse radial expansion in nuclear collisions and two particle correlations
Nuclear Theory
2009-11-10 v3
Abstract
At the very first stage of an ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collision new particles are produced in individual nucleon-nucleon collisions. In the transverse plane, all particles from a single collision are initially located at the same position. The subsequent thermalization and transverse radial expansion of the system create strong position-momentum correlations and lead to characteristic rapidity, transverse momentum, and azimuthal correlations among the produced particles.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0312065,
title = {Transverse radial expansion in nuclear collisions and two particle correlations},
author = {Sergei A. Voloshin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0312065},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
As accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B. The discussion is slightly extended. The linear scale in Fig.2 changed to log scale. No other changes