High energy factorization in nucleus-nucleus collisions III. Long range rapidity correlations

We obtain a novel result in QCD for long range rapidity correlations between gluons produced in the collision of saturated high energy hadrons or nuclei. This result, obtained in a high energy factorization framework, provides strong justification for the Glasma flux tube picture of coherent strong color fields. Our formalism can be applied to “near side ridge” events at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and in future studies of long range rapidity correlations at the LHC.