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Can Momentum Correlations Proof Kinetic Equilibration in Heavy Ion Collisions at 160 AGeV?

M. Bleicher, M. Belkacem, C. Ernst, H. Weber, L. Gerland, C. Spieles, S. A. Bass, H. Stöcker, W. Greiner

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9803345

Abstract

We perform an event-by-event analysis of the transverse momentum distribution of final state particles in central Pb(160AGeV)+Pb collisions within a microscopic non-equilibrium transport model (UrQMD). Strong influence of rescattering is found. The extracted momentum distributions show less fluctuations in A+A collisions than in p+p reactions. This is in contrast to simplified p+p extrapolations and random walk models.

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