Strangeness production from SPS to LHC
Abstract
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Global strangeness production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at SPS and RHIC is reviewed. Special emphasis is put on the comparison with the statistical model and the canonical suppression mechanism. It is shown that recent RHIC data on strange particle production as a function of centrality can be explained by a superposition of a fully equilibrated hadron gas and particle emission from single independent nucleon-nucleon collisions in the outer corona.
Plenary talk given by F. Becattini at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur (India). Additions to the text
Plenary talk given by F. Becattini at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur (India). Additions to the text