Universal Mass Dependence for Particle Production Rates in $e^+e^-$, $pp$ and $AA$ Collisions from the Quark-Gluon Plasma Perspective

Abstract

It is demonstrated that universal mass dependence for meson and baryon inclusive cross-sections advocated recently in $e^+e^-$ annihilation and in hadronic reactions is consistent also with heavy ion collisions data and can therefore be used as a reference for quark-gluon plasma studies.