Baryon-Strangeness Correlations: A Diagnostic of Strongly Interacting Matter
Baryon-Strangeness Correlations: A Diagnostic of Strongly Interacting Matter
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 …