Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma

Abstract

A brief summary of strangeness mile stones is followed by a chemical non-equilibrium statistical hadronization analysis of strangeness results at SPS and RHIC. Strange particle production in AA interactions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}\ge 8.6 GeV can be understood consistently as originating from the deconfined quark--gluon plasma in a sudden hadronization process. Onset of QGP formation as function of energy is placed in the beam energy interval 10--30A GeV/c. Strangeness anomalies at LHC are described.

30 pages including numerouse figures, tables. Opening Lecture: Strangeness and Quark Gluon Plasma -- what has been learned so far and where do we go at SQM2003, North Carolina, March 2003, submitted to J. Phys. G

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• QCD Equations of State and the QGP Liquid Model
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