Long and Short Range Correlations: A Signature of String Fusion

N. S. Amelin; N. Armesto; M. A. Braun; E. G. Ferreiro; C. Pajares

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2813

Long and Short Range Correlations: A Signature of String Fusion

N. S. Amelin, N. Armesto, M. A. Braun, E. G. Ferreiro, and C. Pajares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2813 – Published 21 November 1994

Abstract

The study of backward-forward and forward-forward correlations in collisions of two nuclei at high energies allow us to distinguish between the fusion of strings produced in the collision into new strings of higher color and the possibility of the fusion of produced hadrons into clusters. The results for $AB$ collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are discussed.

Received 17 May 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2813

Authors & Affiliations

N. S. Amelin^*

Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Nantes, F-44072 Nantes Cedex 03, France

N. Armesto, M. A. Braun^†, E. G. Ferreiro, and C. Pajares

Departmento de Física de Partículas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15906-Santiago de Compostela, Spain

^*On leave of absence from the JINR, Dubna, Russia.
^†On leave of absence from the Department of High Energy Physics, University of St. Petersburg, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia.