The "Shoulder" and the "Ridge" in PHENIX
Michael P. McCumber (for the PHENIX Collaboration)

TL;DR
This paper investigates the 'ridge' and 'shoulder' structures observed in particle correlations in heavy ion collisions, suggesting they result from parton-medium interactions and response, with new analysis on trigger particle angles and dependencies.
Contribution
It introduces new measurements of the ridge and shoulder structures, including their dependencies on centrality and transverse momentum, and explores their possible common origin.
Findings
Structures are consistent with parton-medium interaction models.
Both the ridge and shoulder show dependencies on collision centrality and particle momentum.
The same production mechanism may underlie both phenomena.
Abstract
The observation of jet quenching in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions demonstrates significant energy loss of fast partons when passing through the created medium. Correlations between final-state particles at intermediate transverse momentum (1.0 4.0 GeV/) allow for study of the medium and its response to deposited energy. Comparison of these measurements in heavy ion collisions with measurements in proton collisions show strong modification of the correlation shape and particle yields. Two new structures are created, both extended in , one centered at (``ridge'') and the other occurring at (``shoulder''). In these proceedings, we describe the measurements of these structures that show consistency with a scenario of parton-medium interaction and response. We discuss a new analysis which…
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