Towards strangeness saturation in central heavy-ion collisions at high energies

Abstract

Analyses of the centrality binned identified hadron multiplicities at SPS and RHIC within the statistical-thermal model point to strangeness saturation with increasing centrality and energy.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Presented at the 16th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Nantes, France, 18-24 July, 2002