Baryon-strangeness correlations: a diagnostic of strongly interacting matter
Nuclear Theory
2009-02-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The correlation between baryon number and strangeness elucidates the nature of strongly interacting matter, such as that formed transiently in high-energy nuclear collisions. This diagnostic can be extracted theoretically from lattice QCD calculations and experimentally from event-by-event fluctuations. The analysis of present lattice results above the critical temperature severely limits the presence of q-qbar bound states, thus supporting a picture of independent (quasi)quarks.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0505052,
title = {Baryon-strangeness correlations: a diagnostic of strongly interacting matter},
author = {V. Koch and A. Majumder and J. Randrup},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0505052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 eps figures, Revised: several sign typos have been fixed (the PRL version is correct)