Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions

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.

4 pages, 2 eps figures, final version to appear in PRL

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• Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum in 40, 80, and 158 A GeV/c Pb-Au collisions
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