• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.52.1604
• Corpus ID: 16605574

Correlations and fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions.

@article{Baym1995CorrelationsAF,
  title={Correlations and fluctuations in high-energy nuclear collisions.},
  author={Baym and Bl{\"a}ttel and Frankfurt and Heiselberg and Strikman},
  journal={Physical review. C, Nuclear physics},
  year={1995},
  volume={52 3},
  pages={
          1604-1617
        }
}

• Baym, Blättel, +2 authors Strikman
• Published 22 February 1995
• Physics
• Physical review. C, Nuclear physics

Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular for heavy projectile and target. The interplay between cross-section fluctuations, from color transparency and opacity, and nuclear correlations is calculated and found to be able to account for large fluctuations in transverse energy spectra. Numerical implementation of correlations and cross-section fluctuations in Monte-Carlo codes is discussed.