Strangeness and quark-gluon plasma

Jan Rafelski

doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.43.829

Strangeness and quark-gluon plasma

Jan Rafelski

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I review the foundational motivations 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 the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) phase filling the Universe for the first 30 μs after the Big Bang; the origin of mass of stable matter; and the origin of flavor. The special roles of strangeness enhancement and strange antibaryon signature are 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	829-842
Number of pages	14
Journal	Acta Physica Polonica B
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5506/APhysPolB.43.829
State	Published - Apr 2012

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