Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2003-12-29
Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 53 (2004) 269-272
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Presented at 25th International School of Nuclear Physics, Erice, Italy, to be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear P
Scientific paper
A non-monotonic energy dependence of the $K^{+} / \pi^{+}$ ratio with a sharp maximum close to 30 A$\cdot$GeV is observed in central Pb+Pb collisions. Within a statistical model of the early stage, this is interpreted as a sign of the phase transition to a QGP, which causes a sharp change in the energy dependence of the strangeness to entropy ratio. This observation naturally motivates us to study the production of multistrange hyperons ($\Xi$, $\Omega$) as a function of the beam energy. Furthermore it was suggested that the kinematic freeze-out of $\Omega$ takes place directly at QGP hadronization. If this is indeed the case, the transverse momentum spectra of the $\Omega$ directly reflect the transverse expansion velocity of a hadronizing QGP. In this report we show preliminary NA49 results on $\Omega^{-}$ and $\bar{\Omega}^{+}$ production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 40 and 158 A$\cdot$GeV and compare them to measurements of $\Xi^{-}$ and $\bar{\Xi}^{+}$ production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 30, 40, 80 and 158 A$\cdot$GeV.
Mitrovski Michael
NA49 collaboration for the
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