Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The correlation between baryon number and strangeness elucidates the nature of strongly interacting matter, such as that formed transiently in high-energy nuclear collisions. 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 qq bound states, thus supporting a picture of independent (quasi)quarks.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: V. Koch, A. Majumder, J. Randrup
Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1968840392