2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/49139Final state average transverse energy and charged particle multiplicity at the central rapidity unit of central Au-Au collisions at RHIC are studied within a framework of lowest order perturbative QCD and Bjorken's hydrodynamical picture. In particular, effects of initial minijet production and the $pdV$ work during the subsequent evolution of the QGP are investigated. Nuclear shadowing effects are included in a consistent manner, and the dependence of the results on the minijet transverse momentum cut-off parameter $p_0$ is shown.Talk in Quark Matter '99; 3 pages, includes 2 eps-figuresHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext