Abstract:
According to recent experimental data and theoretical developments we discuss three distinct topics related to strangeness enhancement in nuclear reactions. We investigate the compatibility of multi-strange particle ratios measured in a restricted phase space with thermal model parameters extracted recently in 4pi. We study the canonical suppression as a possible reason for the observed strangeness enhancement and argue that a connection between QGP formation and the undersaturation of strangeness is not excluded.
Note:
  • 4 pages, Proceedings of Quark Matter 97, to be published in NPA Report-no: BI-TP 98/03, TPR-98-07
  • talk: Tsukuba 1997/12/01
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • nucleon nucleon: inclusive reaction
  • strange particle: hadroproduction
  • yield: enhancement
  • model: thermodynamical
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments