Excitation function of < p(t) > and net charge fluctuations at RHIC

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Jan, 2004

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Abstract:
We present measurements of net charge and transverse momentum fluctuations in Au + Au collisions at ?sNN = 20, 130, and 200 GeV reported in our QM 2004 poster using measures ?+-,dyn and . We observe the dynamical fluctuations are finite at all three energies and exhibit a rather modest dependence on beam energy. We also find both net charge and pt fluctuations violate the trivial 1/N scaling expected for nuclear collisions consisting of independent nucleon-nucleon interactions. We speculate the observed centrality dependence arises due to radial flow and might provide insight on the width and shape of the radial flow profile.
Note:
  • 11 pages, 7 figures, Poster presented at Quark Matter 2004
  • talk: Oakland 2004/01/11
  • p p: colliding beams
  • nucleus nucleus: colliding beams
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • gold
  • hadron: multiple production
  • transverse momentum: fluctuation
  • charge: fluctuation
  • energy dependence
  • scaling: violation