2004/11/19 by Christoph Blume, C. Blume · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Energy (signal processing) #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics #Particle (ecology) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark–gluon plasma #Rapidity #Spectral line #Strange quark #Transverse mass #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/31/6/008
published as J.Phys. G31 (2005) S685-S692 · 8 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings of the SQM04 conference, Capetown
arxiv created 2004/11/19 · openalex publication_date 2005/05/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
New results of the NA49 Collaboration on strange particle production are presented. Rapidity and transverse mass spectra as well as total multiplicities are discussed. The study of their evolution from AGS over SPS to the highest RHIC energy reveals a couple of interesting features. These include a sudden change in the energy dependence of the m t -spectra and of the yields of strange hadrons around 30 A GeV. Both are found to be difficult to be reproduced in a hadronic scenario, but might be an indication for a phase transition to a quark–gluon plasma.