%0 Journal Article
%T Inhomogeneous Nucleation of Quark-Gluon Plasma in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
%A Joseph I. Kapusta
%A Axel P. Vischer
%J Physics
%D 1995
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevC.52.2725
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9508010v1