Strangeness and threshold of phase changes

Abstract

We explore entropy and strangeness as signature of QGP for top AGS energy and the energy scan at SPS. We find that the hadronization dynamics changes between 20 and 30 $A$ GeV projectile energy. The high energy results are consistent with QGP.

Presented at SQM07, to appear in JPG special issue

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