Strangeness, Equilibration, Hadronization

Abstract

In these remarks I explain the motivation which leads us to consider chemical nonequilibrium processes in flavor equilibration and in statistical hadroniziation of quark--gluon plasma (QGP). Statistical hadronization allowing for chemical non-equilibrium is introduced. The reesults of fits to RHIC-130 results, including multistrange hadrons, are shown to agree only with the model of an exploding QGP fireball.

Comments: 8 pages including one figure, discussion contribution at Strange Quark Matter 2001, Frankfurt, submitted to J. Phys. G