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The production of strange and multi-strange hadrons in proton-proton (pp) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions is studied with the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. These particles are reconstructed via their weak decay topologies, exploiting…
A model for description of the s_{NN}^{1/2} dependence of K+/pi+ ratio at the CERN SPS and upper AGS energies is proposed. It uses hadronic degrees of freedom and the amount of produced strangeness is mainly controlled by the total lifetime…
A study of the yields of strange particles produced in heavy-ion and elementary collisions is presented using preliminary results from the STAR experiment at RHIC. The strange particle production rates, relative to those of p+p, have been…
We present measurements of the transverse momentum spectra for K0s, Lambda, Xi and their antiparticles in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. The extracted mid-rapidity yields and <pT> are in agreement with previous $p+\bar{p}$…
We analyse the transverse momentum $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ spectra of strange particles \Kslxi produced in $\textsf{Pb+Pb}$ collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.76$ TeV, $\textsf{p+Pb}$ collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 5.02$ TeV, and $\textsf{p+p}$…
The centrality dependence of strange ($K_S^0$, $\Lambda + \bar{\Lambda}$) and multi-strange ($\Xi^- + \bar{\Xi^+}$, $\Omega^- + \bar{\Omega}^+$) hadron production is measured by ALICE in the LHC lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at a…
The latest NA49 results on fluctuations of multiplicity and average transverse-momentum analyzed on an event-by-event basis are presented for central Pb+Pb interactions over the whole SPS energy range (20A - 158A GeV). The scaled variance…
One of the key results of the LHC Run 1 was the observation of an enhanced production of strange particles in high multiplicity pp and p--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 7 and 5.02 TeV, respectively. The strangeness enhancement is…
Heavy ion collisions at SIS energies (1-2 AGeV) offer an unique tool to probe the properties of hot and dense nuclear matter. In particular, the partial restoration of chiral symmetry is predicted to lead in this energy range to in-medium…
The results of the WA97 collaboration for strange particle production at mid-rapidity in Pb--Pb collisions at 158 GeV A/c at CERN display a strong strangeness enhancement with system size at mid-rapidity which is dependent on the…
Results on the production of $\pi^{\pm}$, $\textrm{K}^{\pm}$, $\textrm{p}(\bar{\textrm{p}})$, $\Lambda(\bar{\Lambda})$, $\Xi^{-} \left(\bar{\Xi}^{+}\right)$ and $\Omega^{-} \left(\bar{\Omega}^{+}\right)$ at midrapidity (${|y|<0.5}$) as a…
The current experimental situation concerning high pt observables at the CERN SPS is reviewed. Recent data from the NA45, NA49 and NA57 collaborations are discussed and compared to earlier measurements by WA98 and NA45 at the same…
We present results on systematic measurements of strange and multi-strange particles with the STAR detector for center of mass energies per nucleon pair of 62.4 and 200 GeV in ultra-relativistic Au+Au collisions at RHIC. We use these…
The NA57 experiment has collected high statistics, high purity samples of \PKzS and \PgL, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ hyperons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 $A$ GeV/$c$. In this paper we present a study of the transverse mass spectra of these…
Strangeness study is one of the major goal of the STAR experiment at RHIC. Results presented here have been obtained from analyses restricted to the mid-rapidity region of Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 130 GeV. An onset of the…
Strange particles have been a very important observable in the search for a deconfined state of strongly interacting matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is expected to be formed in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We review…
Identified charged kaon, pion, and proton spectra and ratios from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 and 62.4 GeV Cu+Cu collisions are studied with a hydro-motivated blast-wave and a statistical model framework in order to explore the strangeness production…
Transverse momentum spectra of pi^{+/-} at midrapidity are measured at high p_T in p+p and p+Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon beam energy by the NA49 experiment. This study is complementary to our previous results on the same spectra from…
Systematic studies on the production of strange hyperons and the phi meson as a function of beam energy and system size performed by the NA49 collaboration are discussed. Hadronic transport models fail to describe the production of multi…
The multi-strange baryon yields in Pb--Pb collisions have been shown to exhibit an enhancement relative to pp reactions. In this work, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ production rates have been measured with the ALICE experiment as a function of…