Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-04-13
Phys.Lett.B459:679-686,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00673-5
We present first data on event-by-event fluctuations in the average transverse momentum of charged particles produced in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS. This measurement provides previously unavailable information allowing sensitive tests of microscopic and thermodynamic collision models and to search for fluctuations expected to occur in the vicinity of the predicted QCD phase transition. We find that the observed variance of the event-by-event average transverse momentum is consistent with independent particle production modified by the known two-particle correlations due to quantum statistics and final state interactions and folded with the resolution of the NA49 apparatus. For two specific models of non-statistical fluctuations in transverse momentum limits are derived in terms of fluctuation amplitude. We show that a significant part of the parameter space for a model of isospin fluctuations predicted as a consequence of chiral symmetry restoration in a non-equilibrium scenario is excluded by our measurement.
Appelshäuser Harald
collaboration NA49
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