Long-range rapidity correlations in high energy AA collisions in Monte Carlo model with string fusion

Faculty of Physics, St.Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya st. 3, 198504, St.Petersburg, Russia

^a e-mail: vladimir.kovalenko@cern.ch

Published online: 20 March 2014

Abstract

The magnitude of long-range correlations between observables in two separated rapidity windows, proposed as a signature of the string fusion and percolation phenomenon, is studied in the framework of non-Glauber Monte Carlo string-parton model, based on the picture of elementary collisions of color dipoles. The predictions, obtained with and without string fusion, demonstrate effects of color string fusion on the observables in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC: decrease of n-n correlation coeffcient with centrality and negative pt-n correlations, if a suffciently effective centrality estimator is applied. In general case it is shown that the values of n-n and pt-n correlation coeffcients strongly depend on the method of collision centrality fixation. In contrast, the predictions obtained for pt-pt correlation have almost no effect of centrality determination method and the corresponding experimental data would produce the strong limitation on the transverse radius of a string.