The
STAR
collaboration
Adams, John
;
Aggarwal, M.M.
;
Ahammed, Z.
;
et al.
J.Phys.G 32 (2006) L37-L48, 2006.
https://inspirehep.net/literature/693136
Inspire Record
693136
DOI
10.17182/hepdata.102092
https://doi.org/10.17182/hepdata.102092
We present first measurements of the pseudorapidity and azimuth $(\eta,\phi)$ bin-size dependence of event-wise mean transverse momentum $$ fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV. We invert that dependence to obtain $p_t$ autocorrelations on differences $(\eta_\Delta,\phi_\Delta)$ interpreted to represent velocity/temperature distributions on ($\eta,\phi$). The general form of the autocorrelations suggests that the basic correlation mechanism is parton fragmentation. The autocorrelations vary strongly with collision centrality, which suggests that fragmentation is strongly modified by a dissipative medium in the more central