Traces of Thermalization at RHIC

Abstract

I argue that measurements of Au+Au collisions at 20, 130 and 200 GeV of the centrality dependence of the mean p_t together with p_t and net-charge fluctuations reflect the approach to local thermal equilibrium.

4 pages, 4 eps figures, for proc. Quark Matter 2004, to be published in J. Phys.G

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• Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions
• An Overview of Fluctuation and Correlation Results in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

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