RAPIDITY CORRELATIONS IN PARTICLES PRODUCED IN INELASTIC COLLISIONS OF 12C AND 28Si IONS IN EMULSION AT 4.5A GeV/c

Abstract

Correlations between particles produced in the interactions of 28 Si and 12 C nuclei with emulsion nuclei at 4.5A GeV/c has been investigated. 701 events of 28 Si and 844 of 12 C interactions have been analysed. A method which combines techniques from the method of using the two-particle correlation functions and from rapidity-gap distributions is applied. This method has been used successfully by others to study the correlation in P-Em and light-ion interactions. However, we have applied it to the heavy-ion collision data. Small but significant departure from zero-correlation is observed.