Traces of thermalization from p(t) fluctuations in nuclear collisions.

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.

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2003-08-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.162301arXiv nucl-th/0308067PMID 15169221
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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