Long range rapidity correlations as seen in the STAR experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-15 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We analyze long range rapidity correlations observed in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Our goal is to extract properties of the two particle correlation matrix, accounting for the analysis method of the STAR experiment. We find a surprisingly large correlation strength for central collisions of gold nuclei at highest RHIC energies. We argue that such correlations cannot be the result of impact parameter fluctuations.
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@article{arxiv.0909.0428,
title = {Long range rapidity correlations as seen in the STAR experiment},
author = {T. Lappi and L. McLerran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0428},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures, uses elsart.cls. V2: typo corrections