What did we know from the "ridge" in BEC at the CMS

TL;DR

This paper investigates the Bose-Einstein correlation function and the 'ridge' phenomenon in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions, providing insights into the source size, temperature, and quark-gluon plasma evidence.

Contribution

It introduces a model linking the 'ridge' behavior with the source characteristics of pion emission, offering a new perspective on particle correlations in high-energy collisions.

Findings

Evidence for quark-gluon phase in proton-proton collisions

Correlation between 'ridge' and source temperature and size

Confirmation of medium interactions affecting high transverse momentum pions

Abstract

We look at the new two-particle Bose-Einstein correlation (BEC) function accompanied by the color-electric flux model which can explain the "ridge" behavior in enhanced angular correlation between two identical pions at very broad rapidity with high multiplicity. We argue that such an investigation could probe both the size and the temperature of the source of two pions emitted into a narrow range of azimuthal angles. We can confirm the ev- idence for quark-gluon phase due to interaction of outgoing pions (having high transverse momenta) with the medium in thermal bath in proton-proton collisions.