Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Scattering of particles produced in Au+Au collisions at RHIC can wrestle the system into a state near local thermal equilibrium. I illustrate how measurements of the centrality dependence of the mean transverse momentum and its fluctuations can exhibit this thermalization.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0308067,
title = {Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions},
author = {Sean Gavin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0308067},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 eps figures, final version to appear in PRL