Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
A brief summary of strangeness mile stones is followed by a chemical non-equilibrium statistical hadronization analysis of strangeness results at SPS and RHIC. Strange particle production in AA interactions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}\ge 8.6 GeV can be understood consistently as originating from the deconfined quark--gluon plasma in a sudden hadronization process. Onset of QGP formation as function of energy is placed in the beam energy interval 10--30A GeV/c. Strangeness anomalies at LHC are described.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0305284,
title = {Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma},
author = {J. Rafelski and J. Letessier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0305284},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
30 pages including numerouse figures, tables. Opening Lecture: Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma -- what has been learned so far and where do we go at SQM2003, North Carolina, March 2003, submitted to J. Phys. G