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The theoretical description of the correlations between observables in two separated rapidity intervals for AA-interactions at high energies is presented. In the case with the realistic nucleon distribution density of colliding nuclei the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Kolevatov , V. V. Vechernin

The linear dependence of the particle spectra on rapidity is seen in the central region for asymmetric heavy ion collision in the data and in the Monte Carlo results, similarly as in the fragmentation region for hadronic and ion collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Fialkowski , R. Wit

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 $NN$ collision are initially located at the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergei A. Voloshin

The dynamics of string junctions and their influence on the evolution of cosmic superstring networks are studied in full detail. We review kinematic constraints for colliding strings in a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker background and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 I. Yu. Rybak , A. Avgoustidis , C. J. A. P. Martins

Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Aram Z. Mekjian

We present data on long-range multiplicity correlations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at the top RHIC energy ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV) from the STAR experiment. The data shows a long-range multiplicity correlation extending…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Terence J. Tarnowsky

We show that fluctuations of the fireball shape in the longitudinal direction generate nontrivial rapidity correlations that depend not only on the rapidity difference, y_{1} - y_{2}, but also on the rapidity sum, y_{1} + y_{2}. This is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-14 Adam Bzdak , Derek Teaney

The ultrarelativistic limit of the Kerr - Newman geometry is studied in detail. We find the gravitational shock wave background associated with this limit. We study the scattering of scalar fields in the gravitational shock wave geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. O. Lousto , N. Sánchez

The recent data on pp collisions at 158 GeV provide severe constraints on string models: These measurements allow for the first time to determine how color strings are formed in ultrarelativistic proton-proton collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. M. Liu , J. Aichelin , M. Bleicher , H. J. Drescher , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog , K. Werner

High parton densities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions suggest a description of these collisions wherein the high energy nuclear wavefunctions and the initial stages of the nuclear collision are dominated by classical fields. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

In this work, we study the two-particle correlations regarding a peripheral tube model. From our perspective, the main characteristics of the observed two-particle correlations are attributed to the multiplicity fluctuations and the locally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Dan Wen , Wagner M. Castilho , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

For over 50 years attempts have been made to explain the properties of nuclear matter in terms of constituent nucleons with very little success. Here we will investigate one class of many possible models, string-flip potential models, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Boyce , P. J. S. Watson

It is an experimental fact that multi-particle correlations in the final states of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions are sensitive to collective correlations of nucleons in the wave functions of the colliding nuclei. Here, I show that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Giuliano Giacalone

A collision between a proton and a heavy nucleus at ultrarelativistic energy creates particles whose rapidity distribution is asymmetric, with more particles emitted in the direction of the nucleus than in the direction of the proton. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Sub-nuclear fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions impact not only transverse long-range correlations of small systems, but also the creation of longitudinal structures, seen in particle detectors as longitudinal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Sören Schlichting , Jie 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

HIJING generator simulation of nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultrarelativistic energies are presented. Is shown, that the global characteristics of nucleus-nucleus collisions, such as of distribution of a charge multiplicity, total and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 M. V. Savina , S. V. Shmatov , N. V. Slavin , P. I. Zarubin

Anomalous centrality evolution of two-particle angular correlations observed in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 62$ and 200 GeV and the onset of ridge structures are considered in the model of interacting quark-gluon strings. We assume…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-12 Grigory Feofilov , Igor Altsybeev , Olga Kochebina

We look for signals of criticality in multifragment production in heavy-ion collisions using model-independent universal fluctuations theory. The phenomenon is studied as a function of system size, bombarding energy, and impact parameter in…

We investigate the influence of the central two-body NN correlations on several quantities observed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. It is demonstrated with explicit Monte Carlo simulations, that the basic correlation measures, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Wojciech Broniowski , Maciej Rybczynski