2003/10/31 by Stephen Adler, the PHENIX Collaboration, S. S. Adler +99 · 98 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Combinatorics #Event (particle physics) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.092301
published in Physical Review Letters 93(9), 092301 (American Physical Society) · 325 authors, 6 pages text, 3 figures, RevTeX 4. Minor revisions to address concerns of referees. Accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. Lett. on May 26, 2004. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
arxiv created 2004/05/26 · openalex publication_date 2004/08/24 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Event-by-event fluctuations of the average transverse momentum of produced particles near midrapidity have been measured by the PHENIX Collaboration in square root of (sNN)=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 pT range over which the average is calculated. Both the centrality and pT dependence can be well reproduced by a simulation of random particle production with the addition of contributions from hard-scattering processes.