Probing Hadronization with Strangeness
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The Omega-bar/Omega ratio originating from string decays is predicted to be larger than unity in proton-proton interaction at SPS energies. The anti-omega dominance increases with decreasing beam energy. This surprising behavior is caused by the combinatorics of quark-antiquark production in small and low-mass strings. Since this behavior is not found in a statistical description of hadron production in proton-proton collisions, it may serve as a key observable to probe the hadronization mechanism in such collisions.
10 pages, proceedings of the 18th International Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002
10 pages, proceedings of the 18th International Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002