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Multiplicity fluctuations in the string clustering approach
We present our results on multiplicity fluctuations in the framework of the
string clustering approach. We compare our results --with and without
clustering formation-- with CERN SPS NA49 data. We find a non-monotonic
behaviour of these fluctuations as a function of the collision centrality,
which has the same origin as the observed fluctuations of transverse momentum:
the correlations between the produced particles due to the cluster formation.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, revte
Particle production azimuthal asymmetries in a clustering of color sources model
The collective interactions of many partons in the first stage of the
collisions is the usual accepted explanation of the sizable elliptical flow.
The clustering of color sources provides a framework of partonic interactions.
In this scheme, we show a reasonable agreement with RHIC data for pT<1.5 GeV/c
in both the dependence of v2 transverse momentum and in the shape of the
nuclear modified factor on the azimuthal angle for different centralities. We
show the predictions at LHC energies for Pb-Pb. In the case of proton-proton
collisions a sizable v2 is obtained at this energy.Comment: To appear in Journal of Physics
Investigation of high p events in Nucleus-Nucleus collisions using the Hijing event generator
In recent years lot of interest has been observed in the nucleus-nucleus
collisions at RHIC energies in phenomena related to high physics
\cite{ref1}. The suppression of high particles and disappearance of
back-to-back jets compared to the scaling with number of binary nucleon-nucleon
collisions indicates that a nearly perfect liquid is produced in these
collisions. Results on self shadowing of high events are presented
using hadron multiplicity associated to high and unbiased events in
nucleus-nucleus collisions \cite{ref2} obtained from the hijing event
generator.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the poster presented at Quark
Matter 200
Torqued fireballs in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
We show that the fluctuations in the wounded-nucleon model of the initial
stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, together with the natural
assumption that the forward (backward) moving wounded nucleons emit particles
preferably in the forward (backward) direction, lead to an event-by-event
torqued fireball. The principal axes associated with the transverse shape are
rotated in the forward region in the opposite direction than in the backward
region. On the average, the standard deviation of the relative torque angle
between the forward and backward rapidity regions is about 20deg for the
central and 10deg for the mid-peripheral collisions. The hydrodynamic expansion
of a torqued fireball leads to a torqued collective flow, yielding, in turn,
torqued principal axes of the transverse-momentum distributions at different
rapidities. We propose experimental measures, based on cumulants involving
particles in different rapidity regions, which should allow for a quantitative
determination of the effect from the data. To estimate the non-flow
contributions from resonance decays we run Monte Carlo simulations with
THERMINATOR. If the event-by-event torque effect is found in the data, it will
support the assumptions concerning the fluctuations in the early stage of the
fireball formation, as well as the hypothesis of the asymmetric rapidity shape
of the emission functions of the moving sources in the nucleus-nucleus
collisions.Comment: Grant reference adde
Universal behavior of baryons and mesons' transverse momentum distributions in the framework of percolation of strings
In the framework of percolation of strings, we present predictions for the
and for mesons and baryons and for ratios
at LHC energies.Comment: Presented at "Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC: last call for
predictions", Geneva Switzerland, May 14th-June 8t
Nuclear like effects in proton-proton collisions at high energy
We show that several effects considered nuclear effects are not nuclear in
the sense that they do not only occur in nucleus-nucleus and hadron-nucleus
collisions but, as well, they are present in hadron-hadron (proton-proton)
collisions. The matter creation mechanism in hh, hA and AA collisions is always
the same. The pT suppression of particles produced in large multiplicity events
compared to low multiplicity events, the elliptic flow and the Cronin effect
are predicted to occur in pp collisions at LHC energies as a consequence of the
obtained high density partonic medium
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