Correlated emission of hadrons from recombination of correlated partons.
We discuss different sources of hadron correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that correlations among partons in a quasithermal medium can lead to the correlated emission of hadrons by quark recombination and argue that this mechanism offers a plausible explanation for the dihadron correlations in the few GeV/c momentum range observed in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Fries
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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