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Energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at 20A to 158A GeV

  • T. Anticic
  • , B. Baatar
  • , D. Barna
  • , J. Bartke
  • , L. Betev
  • , H. Białkowska
  • , C. Blume
  • , B. Boimska
  • , M. Botje
  • , J. Bracinik
  • , P. Bunčić
  • , V. Cerny
  • , P. Christakoglou
  • , P. Chung
  • , O. Chvala
  • , J. G. Cramer
  • , P. Csató
  • , P. Dinkelaker
  • , V. Eckardt
  • , Z. Fodor
  • P. Foka, V. Friese, J. Gál, M. Gazdzicki, V. Genchev, E. Gładysz, K. Grebieszkow, S. Hegyi, C. Höhne, K. Kadija, A. Karev, D. Kikola, V. I. Kolesnikov, E. Kornas, R. Korus, M. Kowalski, M. Kreps, A. Laszlo, R. Lacey, M. Van Leeuwen, P. Lévai, L. Litov, B. Lungwitz, M. Makariev, A. I. Malakhov, M. Mateev, G. L. Melkumov, A. Mischke, M. Mitrovski, J. Molnár, St Mrówczyński, V. Nicolic, G. Pálla, A. D. Panagiotou, D. Panayotov, A. Petridis, W. Peryt, M. Pikna, J. Pluta, D. Prindle, F. Pühlhofer, R. Renfordt, C. Roland, G. Roland, M. Rybczyński, A. Rybicki, A. Sandoval, N. Schmitz, T. Schuster, P. Seyboth, F. Siklér, B. Sitar, E. Skrzypczak, M. Slodkowski, G. Stefanek, R. Stock, C. Strabel, H. Ströbele, T. Susa, I. Szentpétery, J. Sziklai, M. Szuba, P. Szymanski, V. Trubnikov, M. Utvic, D. Varga, M. Vassiliou, G. I. Veres, G. Vesztergombi, D. Vranić, Z. Włodarczyk, A. Wojtaszek, I. K. Yoo
  • Ruder Boskovic Institute
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • CERN
  • Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • Comenius University
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Stony Brook University
  • Charles University
  • University of Washington
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • University of Marburg
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Warsaw
  • Pusan National University

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Abstract

Results are presented on event-by-event fluctuations of transverse momenta pT in central Pb+Pb interactions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A, and 158A GeV. The analysis was performed for charged particles at forward center-of-mass rapidity (1.1<yπ*<2.6). Three fluctuation measures were studied: the distribution of average transverse momentum M(pT) in the event, the ΦpT fluctuation measure, and two-particle transverse momentum correlations. Fluctuations of pT are small and show no significant energy dependence in the energy range of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Results are compared with QCD-inspired predictions for the critical point, and with the UrQMD model. Transverse momentum fluctuations, similar to multiplicity fluctuations, do not show the increase expected for freeze-out near the critical point of QCD.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044904
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume79
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2009

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