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Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions

Sean Gavin

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0308067

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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