System size dependence of strangeness production at 158 AGeV
Nuclear Experiment
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Strange particle production in A+A interactions at 158 AGeV is studied by the CERN experiment NA49 as a function of system size and collision geometry. Yields of charged kaons, phi and Lambda are measured and compared to those of pions in central C+C, Si+Si and centrality-selected Pb+Pb reactions. An overall increase of relative strangeness production with the size of the system is observed which does not scale with the number of participants. Arguing that rescattering of secondaries plays a minor role in small systems the observed strangeness enhancement can be related to the space-time density of the primary nucleon-nucleon collisions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0209018,
title = {System size dependence of strangeness production at 158 AGeV},
author = {C. Hoehne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0209018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, Presented at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, France