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Strangeness in paradise: The strange quark as a probe of QCD

  • Strangeness and Hadronization
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Acta Physica Hungarica New Series Heavy Ion Physics

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I review the arguments for considering the strange quark as a probe of changes in the QCD vacuum, and of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, in particular. I survey existing data showing enhanced production of strange hadrons in relativistic heavy ion collisions and analyse their implications in the context of thermal and microscopic reaction models. My lecture closes with some remarks on strange quark matter and hypernuclei.

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  1. Department of Physics, Duke University, 27708-0305, Durham, NC, USA

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Müller, B. Strangeness in paradise: The strange quark as a probe of QCD. APH N.S., Heavy Ion Physics 4, 1–14 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03155595

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