  Mechanisms for particle production at intermediate pT in nuclear collisions
at RHIC are discussed, emphasizing the differences in associated jet-like
correlations between color-neutral and colored production. An alternative
production mechanism involving both recombination and fragmentation is
suggested, which might simultaneously lead to an enhancement of baryons and to
jet-like correlations. To gain more insight into the relative importance of
different mechanisms a study of constrained distributions of associated
multiplicity is proposed. In a simple model it is shown that these multiplicity
distributions may change significantly, if the nature of the production
mechanism fluctuates from event to event.
