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Strangeness Excitation Function in Heavy Ion Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study as function of energy strangeness created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We consider statistical hadronization with chemical freeze-out in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium. We obtain strangeness per baryon and per entropy in the energy range 8.75\lessimsNN\lessim200A8.75\lessim\sqrt{s_{NN}}\lessim 200 A GeV. A baryon density independent evaluation of the kaon to pion ratio is presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308154,
  title  = {Strangeness Excitation Function in Heavy Ion Collisions},
  author = {Johann Rafelski and Jean Letessier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308154},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages including one table and 4 figures; Stylistic changes, Improved figures, updated refernces

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