NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
An Interdisciplinary Journal

2009, Vol.12, No.4, pp.466-470


Trying to Understand the Ridge Effect in Hydrodynamic Model.
Y. Hama, R. P. G. Andrade, F. Grassi, and W.-L. Qian

In a recent paper[5], the hydrodynamic code NeXSPheRIO was used in conjunction with STAR analysis methods to study two-particle correlations as function of and . Both the ridge-like near-side and the double-hump away-side structures were obtained. However, the mechanism of ridge production was not clear. In order to understand it, we study a simple model with only one high-energy density peripheral tube in a smooth cylindrical back-ground, with longitudinal boost invariance. The results are rather surprising, but the model does produce the triple-ridge structure with one high ridge plus two lower ones placed symmetrically with respect to the former one. The shape of this structure is rather stable in a wide range of parameters.
Key words: two-particle correlations, ridge effect, hydrodynamic model

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