Observing Quark-Gluon Plasma with Strange Hadrons

Abstract

We review the methods and results obtained in an analysis of the experimental heavy ion collision research program at nuclear beam energy of 160-200A GeV. We study strange, and more generally, hadronic particle production experimental data. We discuss present expectations concerning how these observables will perform at other collision energies. We also present the dynamical theory of strangeness production and apply it to show that it agrees with available experimental results. We describe strange hadron production from the baryon-poor quark-gluon phase formed at much higher reaction energies, where the abundance of strange baryons and antibaryons exceeds that of nonstrange baryons and antibaryons.

39 journal pages (155kb text), 8 postscript figures, 8 tables

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• Event-by-event fluctuations of average transverse momentum in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon
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