Strangeness observables and pentaquarks

Abstract

We review the experimental evidence on firstly, strangeness production as a signature for the QCD phase transition and secondly, pentaquarks, the latest and most exotic manifestations of strangeness in hadrons.

Comments: 34 pages, 22 figures, Proceedings of the International Workshop "IX Hadron Physics and VII Relativistic Aspects of Nuclear Physics: a Joint Meeting on QCD and QGP", (HADRON-RANP 2004), 28 March - 03 April, 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil