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Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions

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arxiv nucl-th/0308067 v2 pith:SPDGCEOD submitted 2003-08-25 nucl-th hep-phnucl-ex

Traces of Thermalization from Transverse Momentum Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions

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keywords collisionsfluctuationsmomentumthermalizationtransversecentralitydependenceequilibrium
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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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