Research Article

Ridge and Transverse Correlation without Long-Range Longitudinal Correlation

Figure 3

A sketch of initial configuration in - plane at early time. Horizontal thickness of the medium is  fm; the inner vertical slab indicates the relative thickness (~0.5 fm) of the overlapping contracted disks in which the valence quarks are restricted. Red arrow represents semihard parton surrounded in medium by a cone of enhanced thermal partons. Blue arrows represent soft partons with  GeV/c that originate from outside the slab and can therefore interact with the cone (color online).
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