Transverse-momentum p(t) correlations on (eta, phi) from mean-p(t) fluctuations in Au-Au collisions at root(s)(NN)=200 GeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present first measurements of the pseudorapidity and azimuth (, ) bin-size dependence of event-wise mean transverse-momentum p t fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at GeV. We invert that dependence to obtain pt autocorrelations on differences (, ) interpreted to represent velocity/temperature distributions on (, ). The general form of the autocorrelations suggests that the basic correlation mechanism is parton fragmentation. The autocorrelations vary rapidly with collision centrality, which suggests that fragmentation is strongly modified by a dissipative medium in the more central Au-Au collisions relative to peripheral or p-p collisions. 2006 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., ... Zuo, J. X.

citation count

  • 77

complete list of authors

  • Adams, J||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Amonett, J||Anderson, BD||Arkhipkin, D||Averichev, GS||Badyal, SK||Bai, Y||Balewski, J||Barannikova, O||Barnby, LS||Baudot, J||Bekele, S||Belaga, VV||Bellingeri-Laurikainen, A||Bellwied, R||Berger, J||Bezverkhny, BI||Bharadwaj, S||Bhasin, A||Bhati, AK||Bhatia, VS||Bichsel, H||Bielcik, J||Bielcikova, J||Billmeier, A||Bland, LC||Blyth, CO||Blyth, S-L||Bonner, BE||Botje, M||Boucham, A||Bouchet, J||Brandin, AV||Bravar, A||Bystersky, M||Cadman, RV||Cai, XZ||Caines, H||Sanchez, M Calderon de la Barca||Castillo, J||Catu, O||Cebra, D||Chajecki, Z||Chaloupka, P||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, JH||Chen, Y||Cheng, J||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Choi, HA||Christie, W||Coffin, JP||Cormier, TM||Cosentino, MR||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Das, D||Das, S||Daugherity, M||de Moura, MM||Dedovich, TG||DePhillips, M||Derevschikov, AA||Didenko, L||Dietel, T||Dogra, SM||Dong, WJ||Dong, X||Draper, JE||Du, F||Dubey, AK||Dunin, VB||Dunlop, JC||Mazumdar, MR Dutta||Eckardt, V||Edwards, WR||Efimov, LG||Emelianov, V||Engelage, J||Eppley, G||Erazmus, B||Estienne, M||Fachini, P||Faivre, J||Fatemi, R||Fedorisin, J||Filimonov, K||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fine, V||Fisyak, Y||Fornazier, KSF||Fu, J||Gagliardi, CA||Gaillard, L||Gans, J||Ganti, MS||Geurts, F||Ghazikhanian, V||Ghosh, P||Gonzalez, JE||Gos, H||Grachov, O||Grebenyuk, O||Grosnick, D||Guertin, SM||Guo, Y||Gupta, A||Gupta, N||Gutierrez, TD||Hallman, TJ||Hamed, A||Hardtke, D||Harris, JW||Heinz, M||Henry, TW||Hepplemann, S||Hippolyte, B||Hirsch, A||Hjort, E||Hoffmann, GW||Horner, MJ||Huang, HZ||Huang, SL||Hughes, EW||Humanic, TJ||Igo, G||Ishihara, A||Jacobs, P||Jacobs, WW||Jedynak, M||Jiang, H||Jones, PG||Judd, EG||Kabana, S||Kang, K||Kaplan, M||Keane, D||Kechechyan, A||Khodyrev, V Yu||Kim, BC||Kiryluk, J||Kisiel, A||Kislov, EM||Klay, J||Klein, SR||Koetke, DD||Kollegger, T||Kopytine, M||Kotchenda, L||Kowalik, KL||Kramer, M||Kravtsov, P||Kravtsov, VI||Krueger, K||Kuhn, C||Kulikov, AI||Kumar, A||Kutuev, R Kh||Kuznetsov, AA||Lamont, MAC||Landgraf, JM||Lange, S||Laue, F||Lauret, J||Lebedev, A||Lednicky, R||Lee, C-H||Lehocka, S||LeVine, MJ||Li, C||Li, Q||Li, Y||Lin, G||Lindenbaum, SJ||Lisa, MA||Liu, F||Liu, H||Liu, J||Liu, L||Liu, QJ||Liu, Z||Ljubicic, T||Llope, WJ||Long, H||Longacre, RS||Lopez-Noriega, M||Love, WA||Lu, Y||Ludlam, T||Lynn, D||Ma, GL||Ma, JG||Ma, YG||Magestro, D||Mahajan, S||Mahapatra, DP||Majka, R||Mangotra, LK||Manweiler, R||Margetis, S||Markert, C||Martin, L||Marx, JN||Matis, HS||Matulenko, Yu A||McClain, CJ||McShane, TS||Meissner, F||Melnick, Yu||Meschanin, A||Miller, ML||Minaev, NG||Mironov, C||Mischke, A||Mishra, DK||Mitchell, J||Mohanty, B||Molnar, L||Moore, CF||Morozov, DA||Munhoz, MG||Nandi, BK||Nayak, SK||Nayak, TK||Nelson, JM||Netrakanti, PK||Nikitin, VA||Nogach, LV||Nurushev, SB||Odyniec, G||Ogawa, A||Okorokov, V||Oldenburg, M||Olson, D||Pal, SK||Panebratsev, Y||Panitkin, SY||Pavlinov, AI||Pawlak, T||Peitzmann, T||Perevoztchikov, V||Perkins, C||Peryt, W||Petrov, VA||Phatak, SC||Picha, R||Planinic, M||Pluta, J||Porile, N||Porter, J||Poskanzer, AM||Potekhin, M||Potrebenikova, E||Potukuchi, BVKS||Prindle, D||Pruneau, C||Putschke, J||Rakness, G||Raniwala, R||Raniwala, S||Ravel, O||Ray, RL||Razin, SV||Reichhold, D||Reid, JG||Reinnarth, J||Renault, G||Retiere, F||Ridiger, A||Ritter, HG||Roberts, JB||Rogachevskiy, OV||Romero, JL||Rose, A||Roy, C||Ruan, L||Russcher, MJ||Sahoo, R||Sakrejda, I||Salur, S||Sandweiss, J||Sarsour, M||Savin, I||Sazhin, PS||Schambach, J||Scharenberg, RP||Schmitz, N||Schweda, K||Seger, J||Selyuzhenkov, I||Seyboth, P||Shahaliev, E||Shao, M||Shao, W||Sharma, M||Shen, WQ||Shestermanov, KE||Shimanskiy, SS||Sichtermann, E||Simon, F||Singaraju, RN||Smirnov, N||Snellings, R||Sood, G||Sorensen, P||Sowinski, J||Speltz, J||Spinka, HM||Srivastava, B||Stadnik, A||Stanislaus, TDS||Stock, R||Stolpovsky, A||Strikhanov, M||Stringfellow, B||Suaide, AAP||Sugarbaker, E||Sumbera, M||Surrow, B||Swanger, M||Symons, TJM||de Toledo, A Szanto||Tai, A||Takahashi, J||Tang, AH||Tarnowsky, T||Thein, D||Thomas, JH||Timmins, AR||Timoshenko, S||Tokarev, M||Trainor, TA||Trentalange, S||Tribble, RE||Tsai, OD||Ulery, J||Ullrich, T||Underwood, DG||Van Buren, G||van der Kolk, N||van Leeuwen, M||Vander Molen, AM||Varma, R||Vasilevski, IM||Vasiliev, AN||Vernet, R||Vigdor, SE||Viyogi, YP||Vokal, S||Voloshin, SA||Waggoner, WT||Wang, F||Wang, G||Wang, G||Wang, XL||Wang, Y||Wang, Y||Mwang, Z||Ward, H||Watson, JW||Webb, JC||Westfall, GD||Wetzler, A||Whitten, C Jr||Wieman, H||Wissink, SW||Witt, R||Wood, J||Wu, J||Xu, N||Xu, Z||Xu, ZZ||Yamamoto, E||Yepes, P||Yoo, I-K||Yurevich, VI||Zborovsky, I||Zhang, H||Zhang, WM||Zhang, Y||Zhang, ZP||Zhong, C||Zoulkarneev, R||Zoulkarneeva, Y||Zubarev, AN||Zuo, JX

publication date

  • June 2006