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We explore the dependence of the pT correlations in the event-by-event analysis of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC made recently by the PHENIX and STAR Collaborations. We point out that the observed scaling of strength of…

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This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the…

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Multiplicity fluctuations play a crucial role in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this work, we explore how the multiplicity fluctuations can be effectively suppressed in the measurement of particle correlations. In particular, through…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Chong Ye , Hong-Hao Ma , Dan Wen , Philipe Mota , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

Peripheral heavy ion reactions at ultra relativistic energies have large angular momentum that can be studied via two particle correlations using the Differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss method. We analyze the possibilities and sensitivity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-16 L. P. Csernai , S. Velle , D. J. Wang

Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Gordon Baym , B. Blättel , L. L. Frankfurt , H. Heiselberg , M. Strikman

In this work, we present a theoretical and experimental study about the spatial correlations of paired photons generated by type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion. In particular, we show how these correlations can be positive or…

The pion source as seen through HBT correlations at RHIC energies is investigated within the UrQMD approach. We find that the calculated transverse momentum, centrality, and system size dependence of the Pratt-HBT radii $R_L$ and $R_S$ are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Qingfeng Li , Marcus Bleicher , Horst Stoecker

Two-particle angular correlations have been widely used as a tool to explore particle production mechanisms in heavy-ion collisions. The mixed-event technique is generally used as a standard method to correct for finite-acceptance effects.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-18 Saehanseul Oh , Tim Schuster , Andreas Morsch , Constantin Loizides

Two-particle rapidity (or pseudorapidity) correlation function $C(y_1, y_2)$ was used in analysing fluctuation of particle density distribution in rapidity in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In our research, we argue that for a centrality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Ronghua He , Jing Qian , Lei Huo

The presence of memory effects and color long-range forces among the many-parton system in the early stage of heavy-ion collisions can affect the particle statistical behavior at the freeze-out temperature. In this context, we calculate, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 W. M. Alberico , A. Lavagno , P. Quarati

The formulae for calculating jet fragmentation momentum, $<j_T^2>$, and parton transverse momentum, $<k_T^2>$, and conditional yield are discussed in two particle correlation framework. Additional corrections are derived to account for the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangyong Jia

We describe a comprehensive survey of two-particle correlations from p-p collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV. Correlations on transverse rapidity $y_t$ are separated into a soft component (string fragments) and a hard component (parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 R Jefferson Porter , Thomas A Trainor

We discuss two topics on the experimental measurements of fluctuation observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. First, we discuss the effects of the thermal blurring, i.e. the blurring effect arising from the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-21 Masakiyo Kitazawa , Masayuki Asakawa

Bose-Einstein correlations of identical bosons reveal information about the space-time structure of particle emission from the sQGP formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Previous measurements of two particle correlations have…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-05-22 Bálint Kurgyis

Studies of hadron production in proton-proton collisions, including charged particle transverse momentum, pseudo-rapidity and event-by-event multiplicity distributions at \sqrt{s} = 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV are shown. Measured spectra of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuan Chao

In heavy-ion ({\it A-A}) collisions, the correlations among the particles produced across wide range in rapidity, probe the early stages of the reaction. The analyses of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in these collisions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-17 Sudipan De , T. Tarnowsky , T. K. Nayak , R. P. Scharenberg , B. K. Srivastava

Correlation functions measured as a function of $\Delta \eta, \Delta \phi$ have emerged as a powerful tool to study the dynamics of particle production in nuclear collisions at high energy. They are however subject, like any other…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-26 Shantam Ravan , Prabhat Pujahari , Sidharth Prasad , Claude A. Pruneau

Medium effects on charged-particle production are studied using three analysis techniques. We find angular collinearity and number correlations on $p_t$ at moderate $p_t<3$ GeV/$c$. In this $p_t$ range abundant multiplicities enable…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Kopytine

We analyze the multiplicity correlations between distant forward and backward rapidity regions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a superposition framework, where the particle production occurs through independent emission from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Adam Olszewski , Wojciech Broniowski

Estimations of event-by-event mean transverse momentum ($\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle$) fluctuations are reported in terms of the integral correlator, $\langle \Delta p_{\rm T} \Delta p_{\rm T}\rangle$, and the skewness of event-wise $\langle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Subhadeep Roy , Tanu Gahlaut , Sadhana Dash