Strangeness in QGP: Hadronization Pressure

Abstract

We review strangeness as signature of quark gluon plasma (QGP) and the hadronization process of a QGP fireball formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the entire range of today accessible reaction energies. We discuss energy dependence of the statistical hadronization parameters within the context of fast QGP hadronization. We find that QGP breakup occurs for all energies at the universal hadronization pressure $P=80\pm 3{MeV/fm}^3$.

Comments: 14 pages, one picture, 10 figures, Talk presented at the XXXI Max Born Symposium and HIC for FAIR Workshop "Three Days of Critical Behavior in Hot and Dense QCD", Wroclaw, Poland, June~14-16, 2013. Acta Physica Polonica B: Conference Series in press