Signatures of Flux Tube Fragmentation and Strangeness Correlations in pp Collisions

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/779/1/012046· OSTI ID:1570918

Wong, Cheuk-Yin

In the fragmentation of a color flux tube in high-energy pp collisions or e⁺-e^- annihilations, the production of $$ q\bar{q} $$ pairs along a color flux tube precedes the fragmentation of the tube. The local conservation laws in the production of these $$ q\bar{q} $$ pairs will lead to the correlations of adjacently produced hadrons. As a consequence, the fragmentation of a flux tube will yield a many-hadron correlation in the form of a chain of hadrons ordered in rapidity, with adjacent hadrons correlated in charges, flavor contents, and azimuthal angles. It will also lead to a two-hadron angular correlation between two hadrons with opposite charges or strangeness that is suppressed at Δϕ ~ 0 but enhanced at Δϕ ~ π, within a rapidity window Δy~1/(dN/dy).

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1570918
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 779; Conference: The 16th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2016) - Berkeley, California, United States of America - 6/27/2016 8:00:00 AM-7/1/2016 8:00:00 AM, Berkeley, California, United States of America , 6/27/2016-7/1/2016; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English