Recent measurements of strangeness and heavy flavor at STAR

Abstract

The STAR Collaboration has collected collision data at a wide variety of center-of-mass energies and with several different species of colliding ions ($p$+$p$, Au+Au, Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr, and O+O). This data set enables a many studies of the properties of the hot and dense matter produced in ion-ion collisions, using a variety of probes. In these proceedings, recent STAR measurements of strangeness and heavy flavor production in ion-ion collisions are discussed.

4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the 2026 QCD session of the 60th Rencontres de Moriond