Strangeness Excitation Function in Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

We study as function of energy strangeness created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We consider statistical hadronization with chemical freeze-out in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium. We obtain strangeness per baryon and per entropy in the energy range $8.75\text{lessim}\sqrt{s_{NN}}\text{lessim}200A$ GeV. A baryon density independent evaluation of the kaon to pion ratio is presented.

Comments: 4 pages including one table and 4 figures; Stylistic changes, Improved figures, updated refernces