1998/10/30 by Rene Bellwied, R. Bellwied
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/25/2/034
published as J.Phys.G25:437-449,1999 · 12 pages, 7 figures, Invited Talk at the IV International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Padova (Italy), July 20-24, 1998
arxiv created 1998/10/30 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
With the advent of the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, heavy ion physics will enter a new energy regime. The question is whether the signatures proposed for the discovery of a phase transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma that were established on the basis of collisions at the BEVALAC, the AGS, and the SPS, respectively, are still useful and detectable at these high incident energies. In the past two decades, measurements related to strangeness formation in the collision were advocated as potential signatures and were tested in numerous fixed target experiments at the AGS and the SPS. In this paper I review the capabilities of the RHIC detectors to measure various aspects of strangeness, and I try to answer the question of whether the information content of those measurements is comparable to the one at lower energies.