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In this talk I discuss how a first order phase transition may proceed in rapidly expanding partonic matter produced in a relativistic heavy-ion collision. The resulting picture is that a strong collective flow of matter will lead to the fragmentation of a metastable phase into droplets. If the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadron gas is of the first order, it will manifest itself by strong nonstatistical fluctuations in observable hadron distributions. I discuss shortly existing experimental data on the multiplicity fluctuations.
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Mishustin, I. (2006). FLUCTUATIONS NEAR THE DECONFINEMENT PHASE TRANSITION BOUNDARY. In: Čechák, T., Jenkovszky, L., Karpenko, I. (eds) Nuclear Science and Safety in Europe. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4965-1_8
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