Strangeness Production in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS: Recent Results from E917

Abstract

Strangeness production in Au+Au collisions has been measured via the yields of K+ and K- at 6, 8 AGeV and of anti-Lambda at 10.8 AGeV beam kinetic energy in experiment E917. By varying the collision centrality and beam energy, a systematic search for indications of new phenomena and in-medium effects under high baryon density is undertaken.

9 pages including figures. To be published in Procceding of the 15th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, UT, January, 1999