Inhomogeneous nucleation of quark-gluon plasma in high energy nuclear collisions
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 52 (5) , 2725-2732
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.52.2725
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 noticeable structure in the form of a bump or shoulder.Keywords
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