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Title: Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions: What have we learned with the energy increase from SPS to RHIC

Abstract

A review of strange particle production in heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies is presented. The particle yields and ratios from SPS and RHIC are discussed in view of the newest developments in understanding collision dynamics, and in view of their role in the search for a quark gluon plasma. A strangeness enhancement, most notably observed in CERN Pb-beam results, shows a remarkable two fold global enhancement with a much larger effect seen in the case of multistrange baryons. Hadronic models did fail to explain this pattern. At RHIC energy strangeness assumes a different role, since temperatures are higher and the central rapidity region almost baryon-free. An intriguing question: ''Did RHIC change the way we understand strangeness production in heavy ion collisions ?'' is discussed.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of Nuclear Physics (US)
OSTI Identifier:
810532
Report Number(s):
LBNL-51383
R&D Project: NRNC; TRN: US0302804
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 4th Catania Relativistic Ion Studies (CRIS 2002) on Exotic Clustering, Catania (IT), 06/10/2002--06/14/2002; Other Information: PBD: 23 Aug 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; BARYONS; CERN; HEAVY IONS; PARTICLE RAPIDITY; PRODUCTION; QUARK MATTER; STRANGE PARTICLES; STRANGENESS

Citation Formats

Odyniec, Grazyna. Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions: What have we learned with the energy increase from SPS to RHIC. United States: N. p., 2002. Web.
Odyniec, Grazyna. Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions: What have we learned with the energy increase from SPS to RHIC. United States.
Odyniec, Grazyna. 2002. "Strangeness production in heavy ion collisions: What have we learned with the energy increase from SPS to RHIC". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/810532.
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abstractNote = {A review of strange particle production in heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies is presented. The particle yields and ratios from SPS and RHIC are discussed in view of the newest developments in understanding collision dynamics, and in view of their role in the search for a quark gluon plasma. A strangeness enhancement, most notably observed in CERN Pb-beam results, shows a remarkable two fold global enhancement with a much larger effect seen in the case of multistrange baryons. Hadronic models did fail to explain this pattern. At RHIC energy strangeness assumes a different role, since temperatures are higher and the central rapidity region almost baryon-free. An intriguing question: ''Did RHIC change the way we understand strangeness production in heavy ion collisions ?'' is discussed.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2002},
month = {Fri Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2002}
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