Probing Hadronization with Strangeness
Nuclear Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The Omega-bar/Omega ratio originating from string decays is predicted to be larger than unity in proton-proton interaction at SPS energies. The anti-omega dominance increases with decreasing beam energy. This surprising behavior is caused by the combinatorics of quark-antiquark production in small and low-mass strings. Since this behavior is not found in a statistical description of hadron production in proton-proton collisions, it may serve as a key observable to probe the hadronization mechanism in such collisions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0204049,
title = {Probing Hadronization with Strangeness},
author = {S. A. Bass and M. Bleicher and J. Aichelin and F. Becattini and A. Keranen and F. M. Liu and K. Redlich and K. Werner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0204049},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, proceedings of the 18th International Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002