Baryon-strangeness correlations: a diagnostic of strongly interacting matter

✍ Scribed by V. Koch; A. Majumder; J. Randrup

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 774
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.06.147

✦ Synopsis

The correlation between baryon number and strangeness elucidates the nature of strongly interacting matter. This diagnostic can be extracted theoretically from lattice QCD calculations and experimentally from event-by-event fluctuations. The analysis of present lattice results above the critical temperature severely limits the presence of q q bound states, thus supporting a picture of independent (quasi)quarks. Details may be found in [1].