STUDY OF PARTICLE CORRELATIONS AT RHIC ENERGIES WITHIN THE QUARK-GLUON STRING MODEL

Abstract

The experimental data obtained by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have shown surprisingly large elliptic flow and small correlation (Hanbury-Brown-Twiss, HBT) radii. Quark-Gluon String Model (QGSM) is found to reproduce well many of the flow features in heavy-ion collisions, whereas the models based on the longitudinal excitation of strings essentially underpredict the elliptic flow seen at RHIC. Our aim is to study the HBT correlations within the same QGSM approach. The transverse momentum dependence of correlation radii R long , R out and R side obtained in the QGSM is compared with the UrQMD transport model calculations and the experimental STAR data at [Formula: see text] for the central Au + Au collisions. It appears that the correlation radii obtained in the QGSM from the analysis of all pions are essentially smaller than the experimental ones, while for pions coming from the decay of resonances the agreement with the experimental data is very good.