Inhomogeneous Nucleation of Quark-Gluon Plasma in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

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3 August 1995

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.nucl-th/9508010

Abstract

We estimate the probability that a hard nucleon-nucleon collision is able to nucleate a seed of quark--gluon plasma in the surrounding hot and dense hadronic matter formed during a central collision of two large nuclei at AGS energies. The probability of producing at least one such seed is on the order of 1-100\%. We investigate the influence of quark--gluon plasma formation on the observed multiplicity distribution and find that it may lead to noticable structure in the form of a bump or shoulder.

Keywords

INHOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION
NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
ENERGY NUCLEAR
GLUON PLASMA
QUARK GLUON
NUCLEATION
SEED

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Version 1, 1995-08-03, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review C, 52 (5), 2725.

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