Signs of Thermalization from RHIC Experiments

Abstract

Selected results from the first five years of RHIC data taking are reviewed with emphasis on evidence for thermalization in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV.

10 pages, 6 figures

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