title: Correlated emission of hadrons from recombination of correlated partons.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Fries
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Müller