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Excitation Function of <pt> and Net Charge Fluctuations at RHIC

Nuclear Experiment 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We present measurements of net charge and transverse momentum fluctuations in Au + Au collisions at ?sNN = 20, 130, and 200 GeV reported in our QM 2004 poster using measures ?+-,dyn and <?pt,1 ?pt,2>. We observe the dynamical fluctuations are finite at all three energies and exhibit a rather modest dependence on beam energy. We also find both net charge and pt fluctuations violate the trivial 1/N scaling expected for nuclear collisions consisting of independent nucleon-nucleon interactions. We speculate the observed centrality dependence arises due to radial flow and might provide insight on the width and shape of the radial flow profile.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0401016,
  title  = {Excitation Function of <pt> and Net Charge Fluctuations at RHIC},
  author = {C. Pruneau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0401016},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures, Poster presented at Quark Matter 2004