Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 162301 (2004) [4 pages]Traces of Thermalization from pt Fluctuations in Nuclear CollisionsReceived 26 August 2003; published 21 April 2004 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. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.162301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.162301
PACS:
25.75.Ld, 24.60.Ky
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