Fw: New PHENIX paper on Fluctuations in Mean pT

From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 08:58:25 EDT

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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "William A. Zajc" <zajc@nevis.columbia.edu>
    To: "'Thomas Kirk'" <tkirk@bnl.gov>; "'Timothy Hallman'" <hallman@bnl.gov>; "Gunther Roland" <Gunter.Roland@cern.ch>;
    "'Videbaek, Flemming'" <videbaek@bnl.gov>
    Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:56 AM
    Subject: New PHENIX paper on Fluctuations in Mean pT
    
    
    | Dear Friends:
    |
    | PHENIX intends to submit in one week's time a manuscript to Physical Review Letters on the momentum fluctuations of
    charged
    | particles in Au+Au and p+p collisions at 200 GeV. The title and abstract are enclosed below.
    |
    | Best regards,
    |
    | Bill
    |
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    | Title: Measurement of Non-Random Event-by-Event Fluctuations of Average
    | Transverse Momentum in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au and p+p Collisions.
    |
    | Abstract:
    |
    | Event-by-event fluctuations of the average transverse momentum of
    | produced particles near mid-rapidity have been measured by the PHENIX Collaboration in
    | sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au and p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy
    | Ion Collider.  The fluctuations are observed to be in excess of the
    | expectation for statistically independent particle emission for all
    | centralities. The excess fluctuations exhibit a dependence on both the
    | centrality of the collision and on the transverse momentum window over
    | which the average is calculated. This behavior is consistent with a
    | scenario whereby the predominant contribution to the excess is due to
    | jets where the high transverse momentum hadron production is suppressed
    | in the most central collisions.
    |
    


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