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QGP Formation and Strange Antibaryons
We analyze current experimental results and explore, as function of the
collision energy and stopping in relativistic nuclear collisions, the
production yields of strange antibaryons, assuming formation of a deconfined
thermal QGP-fireball which undergoes a sudden hadronisation.Comment: Replaced by the published version. 11 pages, 3 figure
Strange Antibaryons from QGP
We study as function of the collision energy and stopping the thermal
conditions reached in a quark-gluon plasma fireball formed in a relativistic
heavy ion collision. We explore strange particle yields for the current round
of Pb-Pb and Au-Au experiments.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX, 3 postscript figures, Presented at Quark Matter 1995,
Montere
Hot hadronic matter and strange anti-baryons
We demonstrate that both quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and hadronic gas (HG)
models of the central fireball created in S -> W collisions at 200 GeV A are
possible sources of the recently observed strange (anti-) baryons. From the
theoretical point of view, the HG interpretation we attempt remains more
obscure because of the high fireball temperature required. The thermal
properties of the fireball as determined by the particle ratios, are natural
for the QGP state. We show that the total particle multiplicity emerging from
the central rapidity region allows to distinguish between the two scenarios.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, 1 postscript figure
Centrality dependence of strangeness and (anti)hyperon production at BNL RHIC
We evaluate strangeness produced in Au--Au interactions at
GeV, as function of reaction participant number ,
and obtain the relative strange quark content at hadronization. Strange baryon
and antibaryon rapidity density yields are studied, relative to, and as
function of, participant number, and produced hadron yields.Comment: 4 pages including 4 figures, v2 text improvmen
Strangeness and thresholds of phase changes in relativistic heavy ion collisions
We discuss how the dynamics of the evolving hot fireball of quark--gluon
matter impacts phase transition between the deconfined and confined state of
matter. The rapid expansion of the fireball of deconfined matter created in
heavy ion collisions facilitates formation of an over-saturated strange quark
phase space. The related excess abundance of strangeness is compensating the
suppression of this semi-heavy quark yield by its quark mass. In addition, the
dynamical expansion of colored quanta pushes against the vacuum structure, with
a resulting supercooling of the transition temperature. We address the status
of the search for the phase boundary as function of reaction energy and
collision centrality and show evidence for a change in reaction mechanism at
sufficiently low energies. The phase diagram derived from the study of hadron
production conditions shows two boundaries, one corresponding to the expected
transition between confined and deconfined matter, with a downward temperature
shift, and the other a high quark density hadronization which appears to
involve heavy effective quarks, at relatively large temperatures.Comment: 10 Pages, presented at Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative
Hadron Physics 2005 (LC2005), Cairns, July 2005, to appear in proceeding
Measurement of the Lorentz-FitzGerald Body Contraction
A complete foundational discussion of acceleration in context of Special
Relativity is presented. Acceleration allows the measurement of a
Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction created. It is argued that in the back
scattering of a probing laser beam from a relativistic flying electron cloud
mirror generated by an ultra-intense laser pulse, a first measurement of a
Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction is feasible.Comment: 4 pages Letter, submitted to EPJA, dedicated to memory of Walter
Greine
Strangeness and Quark--Gluon Plasma
I review the foundational motivation which led us to the ultra relativistic
heavy ion collision research at SPS, RHIC and now LHC: the quantum vacuum
structure; the deconfined nature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase filling the
Universe for the first 30s after the big-bang; the origin of stable matter
mass; and of the origin of flavor. The special role of strangeness enhancement
and strange antibaryon signature is highlighted. It is shown how hadron
production can be used to determine the properties of QGP, and how the
threshold energy for QGP formation is determined.Comment: Jubilee Lecture at SQM2011 in Krakow, Poland to appear in Acta
Physica Polonica
Strange Particle Abundance in QGP Formed in 200 GeV A Nuclear Collisions
We investigate here the relative abundance of strange particles produced in
nuclear collisions at the SPS energies (9 GeV A in CM frame) assuming that the
central reaction fireball consists of quark-gluon plasma. We show that the
total strangeness yield in S-S, S-Ag and S-W reactions is compatible with this
picture.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, 3 postscript figures, Phys. Lett. B 323 (1994) 39
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