Long-Range Multiplicity Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions as a Signal for Dense Partonic Matter

Understand

A dense form of matter is formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

• The constituent degrees of freedom in this dense matter are currently unknown.
• Long-range, forward-backward multiplicity correlations (LRC) are expected to arise due to multiple partonic interactions.
• Model independent and dependent arguments suggest that such correlations are due to multiple partonic interactions.