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Traces of Thermalization from<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msub><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:msub></mml:math>Fluctuations in Nuclear Collisions

Sean GavinPhysics and Astronomy Department, Wayne State University, 666 W. Hancock, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
2004lv
ABI

Abstract

Scattering of particles produced in high energy nuclear collisions 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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