Traces of thermalization from pt fluctuations in nuclear collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Gavin, S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COOLING; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONS; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCATTERING; VISCOSITY;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; IMPACT PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIA; THERMALIZATION; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 2942553783     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.162301     Document Type: Article

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