Physics Letters B (Dec 2015)

Bose enhancement and the ridge

  • Tolga Altinoluk,
  • Néstor Armesto,
  • Guillaume Beuf,
  • Alex Kovner,
  • Michael Lublinsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.072
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 751, no. C
pp. 448 – 452

Abstract

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We point out that Bose enhancement in a hadronic wave function generically leads to correlations between produced particles. We show explicitly, by calculating the projectile density matrix in the Color Glass Condensate approach to high-energy hadronic collisions, that the Bose enhancement of gluons in the projectile leads to azimuthal collimation of long range rapidity correlations of the produced particles, the so-called ridge correlations.