Fluctuating initial conditions in hydrodynamics for two-particle correlations

Abstract

Event-by-event hydrodynamics, with fluctuating initial conditions, has shown to nicely reproduce several features of experimentally observed quantities in high-energy nuclear collisions. Here we discuss how it may help to understand, in a unified way, the various structures observed in the long-range two-particle correlations, both in nucleus-nucleus and p-p collisions. Suggestions of how experimentally this description could be tested are also discussed.

6 pages, 4 figures, presented at ISMD2010, 21-25 September, 2010, University of Antwerp (Belgium)