Based on work with: Sean Gavin & Larry McLerran arXiv: [nucl-th] Long Range Correlations and The Soft Ridge George Moschelli 25th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics Wayne State University Outline: Correlation Measurements PHOBOS STAR CGC + Correlations Flux Tubes Glasma Q s Dependence Blast Wave + Correlations Transverse Flow Glasma + Flow Comparison to STAR
PHOBOS: High p t Triggered Ridge from Edward Wenger, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08
PHOBOS: High p t Triggered Ridge from Edward Wenger, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08
PHOBOS: High p t Triggered Ridge from Edward Wenger, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08 long range correlations
PHOBOS: Untriggered Ridge from Edward Wenger, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08 soft ridge with very long range in rapidity? caution: v 2 not yet removed
Long Range Correlations must originate at the earliest stages of the collision like super-horizon fluctuations in the Universe information on particle production mechanism from Raju Venugopalan, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08
STAR: Soft Ridge Medium range correlations…implications for long range? from Lanny Ray, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08 Peak AmplitudePeak η WidthPeak φ Width near side peak v 2 and experimental effects subtracted peak height and azimuthal width not the rapidity width -- structure too narrow Gavin + Abdel-Aziz; Gavin + Pokharel + Moschelli peripheralcentral
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Flux Tubes and Glasma Cross sectional slices are the same Large Flux Tubes: longitudinal fields early on Tubes quarks+gluons Correlated Particles come from the same tube Causally disconnected
Flux Tubes and Glasma Single flux tube: phase space density of gluons Flux tube transverse size Number of flux tubes Gluon rapidity density Kharzeev & Nardi:
Flux Tubes and the Correlation Function Partons from the same tube are correlated Correlations between tubes are negligible Assume: flux tube transverse size ~ Q s -1 << R A correlation strength pair density n 2 single particle density n 1 Correlation function:
Correlation Strength Long range glasma fluctuations scale the phase space density Energy and centrality dependence of correlation strength Dumitru, Gelis, McLerran & Venugopalan; Gavin, McLerran & Moschelli Correlation Strength
Flow and Azimuthal Correlations Fluid cells STAR soft ridge Fireball cross section at freeze out r from Lanny Ray, RHIC & AGS User’s Meeting, ‘08 Mean flow depends on position Opening angle for each fluid element depends on r
Blast Wave and Correlation Function Schnedermann, Sollfrank & Heinz Single Particle Spectrum Cooper Frye Freeze Out Surface Pair Spectrum Boltzmann Distribution
Blast Wave and Correlation Function Correlation Function
Glasma + Blast Wave Blast Wave (with correlations) STAR 200 GeV Peak Amplitude 200 GeV STAR measures:We calculate: v and T from Blast Wave Scaled to fit 200 GeV Glasma Q s dependence 200GeV 62GeV Akio Kiyomichi, PHENIX
Glasma Energy Dependence v and T from Blast Wave Scaled to fit 200 GeV Glasma Q s dependence 200GeV 62GeV Akio Kiyomichi, PHENIX
Angular Correlations computed angular width is approximately independent of energy Peak Width Fit using Gaussian + offset Range: Error band: 20% shift in fit range
Summary Long Range Correlation Measurements PHOBOS: may extend to large rapidity STAR: measurements in a smaller range Blast Wave + Glasma Describes amplitude and azimuthal width Glasma energy and centrality dependence