Physics implications of correlation data from the RHIC and LHC heavy-ion programs Ray, R. L. Two-dimensional angular correlation data from the STAR experiment at RHIC and from the LHC experiments provide critical information about dynamical processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The principal correlation structures of interest are a broad jet-related peak at small relative azimuth (φ) extending to large relative pseudorapidity (η), the dijet ridge at large relative azimuth, and an independent double ridge on φ represented by a quadrupole function. The broad peak at small relative azimuth has been attributed, in large part, to initial-state fluctuations and hydrodynamic flow which produce higher-order harmonics on φ. That conjecture is challenged in this paper. It is shown that the net effect of additional higher harmonic model elements is to describe small, non-Gaussian (NG) shapes in the broad jet-related peak. The quadrupole correlation, which is also conventionally attributed to hydrodynamic flow, is considered within the Balitsky - Fadin - Kuraev - Lipatov (BFKL) Pomeron framework. Preliminary results using this model for the quadrupole correlation for particle production from 200 GeV p + p collisions are shown to be consistent with recent data from STAR. Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory IIT Press Chekanov, Sergei Sullivan, Zack 2013-09-15 2013-09-15 Book part application/pdf islandora:10144 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10144 Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4114 PHYS / Physics Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access