Traces of thermalization from p(t) fluctuations in nuclear collisions.
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.
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Physics and Astronomy Department, Wayne State University, 666 W. Hancock, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.