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Canonical aspects of strangeness enhancement

A. Tounsi, A. Mischke, Krzysztof Redlich

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0209284

Abstract

Strangeness enhancement (SE) in heavy ion collisions can be understood in the statistical model on the basis of canonical suppression. In this formulation,SE is a consequence of the transition from canonical to the asymptotic grand canonical limit and is predicted to be a decreasing function of collision energy. This model predictions are consistent with the recent NA49 data on Λ enhancement at plab=40, 80, 158 GeV.

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