Do p+p Collisions Flow at RHIC? Understanding One-Particle Distributions, Multiplicity Evolution, and Conservation Laws

Details Do p+p Collisions Flow at RHIC? Understanding One-Particle Distributions, Multiplicity Evolution, and Conservation Laws Do p+p Collisions Flow at RHIC? Understanding One-Particle Distributions, Multiplicity Evolution, and Conservation Laws

2009-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3870v2

Nucl.Phys.A830:199c-202c,2009

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

4 pages, 3 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.10.094

Collective, explosive flow in central heavy ion collisions manifests itself in the mass dependence of $p_T$ distributions and femtoscopic length scales, measured in the soft sector ($p_T\lesssim 1$ GeV/c). Measured $p_T$ distributions from proton-proton collisions differ significantly from those from heavy ion collisions. This has been taken as evidence that p+p collisions generate little collective flow, a conclusion in line with naive expectations. We point out possible hazards of ignoring phase-space restrictions due to conservation laws when comparing high- and low-multiplicity final states. Already in two-particle correlation functions, we see clear signals of such phase-space restrictions in low-multiplicity collisions at RHIC. We discuss how these same effects, then, {\it must} appear in the single particle spectra. We argue that the effects of energy and momentum conservation actually dominate the observed systematics, and that $p+p$ collisions may be much more similar to heavy ion collisions than generally thought.

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