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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 122301 (2005) [4 pages]

Correlated Emission of Hadrons from Recombination of Correlated Partons

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R. J. Fries1, S. A. Bass2,3, and B. Müller2
1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
2Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
3RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

Received 29 July 2004; published 30 March 2005

We discuss different sources of hadron correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that correlations among partons in a quasithermal medium can lead to the correlated emission of hadrons by quark recombination and argue that this mechanism offers a plausible explanation for the dihadron correlations in the few GeV/c momentum range observed in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.122301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.122301
PACS:
24.85.+p, 25.75.Gz, 25.75.Nq
 
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