Large Scale Rapidity Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions

TL;DR

This paper explores particle production mechanisms in heavy ion collisions, showing how classical emission fluctuations explain KNO scaling and predicting rapidity correlations at specific scales.

Contribution

It introduces a novel argument linking classical emission fluctuations to KNO scaling and predicts rapidity correlations in heavy ion collision events.

Findings

Classical emission fluctuations can account for KNO scaling.

Rapidity correlations are predicted at scales of order 1/strong coupling.

Provides a theoretical framework for analyzing particle production in heavy ion collisions.

Abstract

We discuss particle production mechanisms for heavy ion collisions. We present an argument demonstrating how the fluctuations of the number of produced particles in a series of classical emissions can account for KNO scaling. We predict rapidity correlations in the particle production in the event by event analysis of heavy ion collisions on the rapidity scales of the order of one over the strong coupling constant.