Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: A Connection between the Strangeness-Maximum at $\sqrt{s}\approx$ 7 GeV and the QCD Critical Endpoint from Lattice Studies

Reinhard Stock

A steep maximum occurs in the Wroblewski ratio between strange and non-strange quarks created in central nucleus-nucleus collisions, of about A=200, at the lower SPS energy $\sqrt{…