Correlation search for coherent pion emission in heavy ion collisions

The methods allowing to extract the coherent component of pion emission conditioned by the formation of a quasi-classical pion source in heavy ion collisions are suggested. They exploit a nontrivial modification of the quantum statistical and final state interaction effects on the correlation functions of like and unlike pions in the presence of the coherent radiation. The extraction of the coherent pion spectrum from pi+pi-, pi+pi+ and pi-pi- correlation functions and single--pion spectra is discussed in detail for large expanding systems produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.Comment: 21 pages, 3 eps figures, ReVTeX, corrected submission abstract. Version published in PRC 65 (2002) 064904. Added is a detailed explanation of the differences between pure coherent states and charge constrained coherent states in the case of a simple example model. The expressions for two-particle spectra taking into account both the final state interaction and the coherent component of pion emission are derived in a more general and transparent wa

Hadron spectra, flow and correlations in PbPb collisions at the LHC: interplay between soft and hard physics

The started LHC heavy ion program makes it possible to probe new frontiers of the high temperature Quantum Chromodynamics. It is expected that the role of hard and semi-hard particle production processes may be significant at ultra-high energies even for bulk properties of the created matter. In this paper, the LHC data on multiplicity, hadron spectra, elliptic flow and femtoscopic correlations from PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. The influence of the jet production mechanism on these observables is discussed.Comment: 10 pages including 7 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX package for publication in the European Physical Journal