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Canonical aspects of strangeness enhancement

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Strangeness enhancement (SE) in heavy ion collisions can be understood in the statistical model on the basis of canonical suppression. In this formulation,SE is a consequence of the transition from canonical to the asymptotic grand canonical limit and is predicted to be a decreasing function of collision energy. This model predictions are consistent with the recent NA49 data on Λ\Lambda enhancement at plab=40,80,158p_{lab}=40, 80, 158 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209284,
  title  = {Canonical aspects of strangeness enhancement},
  author = {A. Tounsi and A. Mischke and Krzysztof Redlich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209284},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2002 (Nantes, France)