2000/03/08 by Jean Letessier, JEAN LETESSIER, Johann Rafelski +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0218301300000076
published as Int.J.Mod.Phys.E9:107-147,2000 · 39 journal pages (155kb text), 8 postscript figures, 8 tables
arxiv created 2000/03/08 · openalex publication_date 2000/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the methods and results obtained in an analysis of the experimental heavy ion collision research program at nuclear beam energy of 160–200 A GeV. We study strange, and more generally, hadronic particle production experimental data. We discuss present expectations concerning how these observables will perform at other collision energies. We also present the dynamical theory of strangeness production and apply it to show that it agrees with available experimental results. We describe strange hadron production from the baryon-poor quark-gluon phase formed at much higher reaction energies, where the abundance of strange baryons and antibaryons exceeds that of nonstrange baryons and antibaryons.