1. Evolution of the differential transverse momentum correlation function with centrality in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV
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G. Agakishiev, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A.V. Alakhverdyants, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, B.D. Anderson, C.D. Anson, D. Arkhipkin, G.S. Averichev, J. Balewski, D.R. Beavis, N.K. Behera, R. Bellwied, M.J. Betancourt, R.R. Betts, A. Bhasin, A.K. Bhati, H. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, B. Biritz, L.C. Bland, I.G. Bordyuzhin, W. Borowski, J. Bouchet, E. Braidot, A.V. Brandin, A. Bridgeman, S.G. Brovko, E. Bruna, S. Bueltmann, I. Bunzarov, T.P. Burton, X.Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M.C. Cervantes, Z. Chajecki, P. Chaloupka, S. Chattopadhyay, H.F. Chen, J.H. Chen, J.Y. Chen, L. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, K.E. Choi, W. Christie, P. Chung, M.J.M. Codrington, R. Corliss, J.G. Cramer, H.J. Crawford, A. Davila Leyva, L.C. De Silva, R.R. Debbe, T.G. Dedovich, A.A. Derevschikov, R. Derradi de Souza, L. Didenko, P. Djawotho, S.M. Dogra, X. Dong, J.L. Drachenberg, J.E. Draper, J.C. Dunlop, L.G. Efimov, M. Elnimr, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, M. Estienne, L. Eun, O. Evdokimov, R. Fatemi, J. Fedorisin, R.G. Fersch, P. Filip, E. Finch, V. Fine, Y. Fisyak, C.A. Gagliardi, D.R. Gangadharan, F. Geurts, P. Ghosh, Y.N. Gorbunov, A. Gordon, O.G. Grebenyuk, D. Grosnick, S.M. Guertin, A. Gupta, S. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, O. Hajkova, A. Hamed, L.-X. Han, J.W. Harris, J.P. Hays-Wehle, M. Heinz, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, E. Hjort, G.W. Hoffmann, D.J. Hofman, B. Huang, H.Z. Huang, T.J. Humanic, L. Huo, G. Igo, P. Jacobs, W.W. Jacobs, C. Jena, F. Jin, J. Joseph, E.G. Judd, S. Kabana, K. Kang, J. Kapitan, K. Kauder, H.W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, D. Kettler, D.P. Kikola, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, V. Kizka, A.G. Knospe, D.D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, J. Konzer, I. Koralt, L. Koroleva, W. Korsch, L. Kotchenda, V. Kouchpil, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, M. Krus, L. Kumar, P. Kurnadi, M.A.C. Lamont, J.M. Landgraf, S. LaPointe, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J.H. Lee, W. Leight, M.J. LeVine, C. Li, L. Li, N. Li, W. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Z.M. Li, L.M. Lima, M.A. Lisa, F. Liu, H. Liu, J. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W.J. Llope, R.S. Longacre, W.A. Love, Y. Lu, E.V. Lukashov, X. Luo, G.L. Ma, Y.G. Ma, D.P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, O.I. Mall, R. Manweiler, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H.S. Matis, Yu.A. Matulenko, D. McDonald, T.S. McShane, A. Meschanin, R. Milner, N.G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, M.K. Mitrovski, Y. Mohammed, B. Mohanty, M.M. Mondal, B. Morozov, D.A. Morozov, M.G. Munhoz, M.K. Mustafa, M. Naglis, B.K. Nandi, T.K. Nayak, P.K. Netrakanti, L.V. Nogach, S.B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, A. Ohlson, V. Okorokov, E.W. Oldag, R.A.N. Oliveira, D. Olson, M. Pachr, B.S. Page, S.K. Pal, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, H. Pei, T. Peitzmann, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, P. Pile, M. Planinic, M.A. Ploskon, J. Pluta, D. Plyku, N. Poljak, J. Porter, A.M. Poskanzer, B.V.K.S. Potukuchi, C.B. Powell, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, N.K. Pruthi, P.R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. Redwine, R. Reed, H.G. Ritter, J.B. Roberts, O.V. Rogachevskiy, J.L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, N.R. Sahoo, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, E. Sangaline, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R.P. Scharenberg, A.M. Schmah, N. Schmitz, T.R. Schuster, J. Seele, J. Seger, I. Selyuzhenkov, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, M. Sharma, S.S. Shi, Q.Y. Shou, E.P. Sichtermann, F. Simon, R.N. Singaraju, M.J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, D. Solanki, P. Sorensen, U.G. Souza, H.M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T.D.S. Stanislaus, D. Staszak, S.G. Steadman, J.R. Stevens, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A.A.P. Suaide, M.C. Suarez, N.L. Subba, M. Sumbera, X.M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, D.N. Svirida, T.J.M. Symons, A. Szanto de Toledo, J. Takahashi, A.H. Tang, Z. Tang, L.H. Tarini, T. Tarnowsky, D. Thein, J.H. Thomas, J. Tian, A.R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R.E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, O.D. Tsai, T. Ullrich, D.G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, J.A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G.M.S. Vasconcelos, A.N. Vasiliev, F. Videbæk, Y.P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S.A. Voloshin, M. Wada, M. Walker, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J.S. Wang, Q. Wang, X.L. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J.C. Webb, G.D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, S.W. Wissink, R. Witt, W. Witzke, Y.F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q.H. Xu, W. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, L. Xue, Y. Yang, P. Yepes, K. Yip, I.-K. Yoo, M. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zhan, J.B. Zhang, S. Zhang, W.M. Zhang, X.P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z.P. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, W. Zhou, X. Zhu, Y.H. Zhu, R. Zoulkarneev, and Y. Zoulkarneeva
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Shear viscosity ,Observable ,Collision ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,Entropy density ,0103 physical sciences ,Transverse momentum ,Entropy (information theory) ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Centrality - Abstract
We present first measurements of the evolution of the differential transverse momentum correlation function, C, with collision centrality in Au + Au interactions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. This observable exhibits a strong dependence on collision centrality that is qualitatively similar to that of number correlations previously reported. We use the observed longitudinal broadening of the near-side peak of C with increasing centrality to estimate the ratio of the shear viscosity to entropy density, eta/s, of the matter formed in central Au + Au interactions. We obtain an upper limit estimate of eta/s that suggests that the produced medium has a small viscosity per unit entropy. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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