Published July 11, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Baryon-strangeness correlations as a diagnostic tool

  • 1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

Description

The correlation between baryon number and strangeness, CBS -3σBS/σS2, elucidates the nature of strongly interacting matter, such as that formed transiently in high-energy nuclear collisions. This diagnostic can be extracted from lattice QCD calculations by means of its expression in terms of flavor susceptibilities, CBS = 1 + (χus + χds)/χss. The smallness of the mixed-flavor susceptibitities severely limits the presence of qq(bar sign) bound states above the critical temperature, thus supporting a mean-field picture of independent (quasi)quarks

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Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
842
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 95-97
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
17. international conference on particles and nuclei
Dates
23-30 Oct 2005
Place
Santa Fe, NM (United States)

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(c) 2006 American Institute of Physics