Pion and Strangeness Puzzles

Abstract

The dependence of pion and strangeness production on the number of participant nucleons and collision energy is discussed for central A+A collisions. A possible interpretation of the experimental results assuming transition to QGP is sketched within a simple statistical approach.

13 pages, 5 figures, some modifications of text and figures

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