201. Probing Hadronization with Strangeness
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Bass, S.A., Bleicher, M., Aichelin, Joerg, Becattini, F., Keranen, A., Liu, F.M., Redlich, K., Werner, Klaus, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), and Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,Nuclear Theory ,[PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th] ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,Nuclear Physics - Abstract
The Omega-bar/Omega ratio originating from string decays is predicted to be larger than unity in proton-proton interaction at SPS energies. The anti-omega dominance increases with decreasing beam energy. This surprising behavior is caused by the combinatorics of quark-antiquark production in small and low-mass strings. Since this behavior is not found in a statistical description of hadron production in proton-proton collisions, it may serve as a key observable to probe the hadronization mechanism in such collisions., Comment: 10 pages, proceedings of the 18th International Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002
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- 2002