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Longitudinal fluctuations of the fireball density in heavy-ion collisions

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arxiv 1210.1965 v1 pith:446IWKBE submitted 2012-10-06 nucl-th hep-phnucl-ex

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keywords rapidityfireballlongitudinalcollisionsfluctuationsheavy-ionshapecase
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We show that fluctuations of the fireball shape in the longitudinal direction generate nontrivial rapidity correlations that depend not only on the rapidity difference, y_{1} - y_{2}, but also on the rapidity sum, y_{1} + y_{2}. This is explicitly demonstrated in a simple wounded nucleon model, and the general case is also discussed. We show how to extract different components of the fluctuating fireball shape from the measured two-particle rapidity correlation function. The experimental possibility of studying the longitudinal initial conditions in heavy-ion and proton-proton collisions is emphasized.

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