Signatures of the quark gluon plasma: a personal overview

Abstract

We first discuss, on a no-QGP basis, the two prominent indications of (a) enhanced strangeness production and of (b) anomalous $J/\psi$-suppression: We elaborate in particular on a recent idea of antihyperon production solely by multi-mesonic reactions. As a possible source for an enhanced dissociation of $c\bar{c}$ pairs we summarize the findings within the 'early'-comover absorption scenario of prehadronic string excitations. As an exotic candidate we then finally adress the stochastic formation of so called disoriented chiral condensates: An experimentally feasible DCC, if it does exist, has to be a rare event following an unusual and nontrivial distribution on an event by event basis.

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, uses ws-p8-50x6_00.cls style file, contribution for the proceedings of `Luederitz 2000: Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Modern Physics', November 2000, Luederitz, Namibia