Strangeness and quark gluon plasma
Abstract
A brief summary of strangeness milestones is followed by a chemical nonequilibrium statistical hadronization analysis of strangeness results at SPS and RHIC. Strange particle production in AA interactions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}\ge 8.6 GeV can be understood consistently as originating from the deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in a sudden hadronization process. Onset of QGP formation as function of energy is placed in the beam energy interval 10-30 A GeV/c. Strangeness anomalies at LHC are described.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0954-3899/30/1/001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0305284
- Bibcode:
- 2004JPhG...30S...1R
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 30 pages including numerouse figures, tables. Opening Lecture: Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma -- what has been learned so far and where do we go at SQM2003, North Carolina, March 2003, submitted to J. Phys. G