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Factorization is the central ingredient in any theoretical prediction for collider experiments. We introduce a factorization formalism that can be applied to any desired observable, like event shapes or jet observables, for any number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Christian W. Bauer , Andrew Hornig , Frank J. Tackmann

Recently studies of the differential nature of the flow angle fluctuations, known as event plane angular decorrelation, indicated that measurements that assume a common symmetry plane may need to consider the flow angle fluctuations effect.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Niseem Magdy

We present the first measurement of the two-particle transverse momentum differential correlation function, $P_2\equiv\langle \Delta p_{\rm T} \Delta p_{\rm T} \rangle /\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle^2$, in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-24 ALICE Collaboration

We point out that the mixed-event method for two-particle acceptance correction, widely used in particle correlation measurements at RHIC and LHC, is wrong in cases where the single particle pseudorapidity distribution is significantly…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-01-03 Lingshan Xu , Chin-Hao Chen , Fuqiang Wang

The interaction between deuterons ($d$-$d$) is pivotal for understanding the characteristics of certain light nuclei from the perspective of the deuteron cluster and achieving a precise reproduction of $d$-$d$ fusion cross sections. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Duo-Lun Ge , Zhi-Wei Liu , Jun-Xu Lu , Li-Sheng Geng

Two-particle correlations as a function of $\Delta\eta$ and $\Delta\varphi$ are used in all collision systems to study a wide range of physical phenomena. Examples include the collective behavior of the quark-gluon plasma medium, jets,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-15 Małgorzata Anna Janik

Energy correlators measured inside high-energy jets at hadron colliders have recently been demonstrated to provide a new window into both perturbative and non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. A number of the most interesting features of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-01 Max Jaarsma , Yibei Li , Ian Moult , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Hua Xing Zhu

The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J. Tarnowsky

Fluctuations of conserved quantities are believed to be sensitive observables to probe the signature of the QCD phase transition and critical point. It was argued recently that measuring the genuine correlation functions (CFs) could provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-24 Yufu Lin , Lizhu Chen , Zhiming Li

Weak measurements have an increasing number of applications in contemporary quantum mechanics. They were originally described as a weak interaction that slightly entangled the translational degrees of freedom of a particle to its spin,…

The Hanbury Brown--Twiss (HBT) effect in two-particle correlations is a fundamental wave phenomenon that occurs at the sensitive elements of detectors; it is one of the few processes in elementary particle detection that depends on the wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alejandro Ayala , Gordon Baym , James L. Popp

It is shown that the DFT exchange and correlation functionals satisfy an expression that couples exchange and correlation functionals and functional derivatives evaluated at three different densities and for two particle numbers. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel P. Joubert

$\Lambda$-deuteron two-particle momentum correlation functions, to be measured in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, are investigated. In particular, the question is addressed whether such correlations can serve as an additional and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 J. Haidenbauer

We present measurements of two-particle differential number correlation functions $R_{2}$ and transverse momentum correlation functions $P_{2}$, obtained from p-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. The results are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-11-11 ALICE Collaboration

Particle correlations and particle multiplicity distributions cannot be approached independently: a unified description of correlations and multiplicity distributions is always needed in order to understand the underlying dynamics in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Giovannini , Roberto Ugoccioni

A new method is presented for the quantitative measurement of charge separation about the reaction plane. A correlation function is obtained whose shape is concave when there is a net separation of positive and negative charges.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-02-28 N. N. Ajitanand , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko , J. M. Alexander

We experimentally measured higher order normalized correlation functions (nCF) of pulsed light with a time-multiplexing-detector. We demonstrate excellent performance of our device by verifying unity valued nCF up to the eighth order for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 M. Avenhaus , K. Laiho , M. V. Chekhova , C. Silberhorn

A method involving intensity correlation measurements is described, which allows for the complete removal of Doppler broadening in the emission of electromagnetic radiation from far-away sources that are inaccessible to conventional…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-22 R. Merlin , N. Green , I. Szapudi , G. Tarle

We report on studies of two-particle \Delta\eta\Delta\phi\ angular correlations measured in proton-proton collisions at center of mass energies sqrt{s} = 0.9 TeV, sqrt{s} = 2.76 TeV and sqrt{s} = 7 TeV registered by the ALICE experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-03-14 Małgorzata Janik

In this paper we develop tools for observers to use when analysing nebular spectra for temperatures and metallicities, with two goals: to present a new, simple method to calculate equilibrium electron temperatures for collisionally excited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-18 David C. Nicholls , Michael A. Dopita , Ralph S. Sutherland , Lisa J. Kewley , Ethan Palay