“…Of particular interest is the possible connection of this phenomenon to the similar structure of the long-range near side correlations earlier discovered in heavy ion collisions at RHIC at √ s = 200 GeV [2,3,4]. Still earlier, before RHIC, experimental analysis of C(∆η, ∆φ) did not reveal such ridge-like structures (e.g., see [5,6] and the review paper [7]).…”