https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16222-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Strangeness as a probe to baryon-rich QCD matter at NICA
Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
* e-mail: fuku@nt.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Received:
18
October
2015
Accepted:
14
April
2016
Published online:
16
August
2016
We elucidate a prospect of strangeness fluctuation measurements in the heavy-ion collision at NICA energies. The strangeness fluctuation is sensitive to quark deconfinement. At the same time strangeness has a strong correlation with the baryon number under the condition of vanishing net strangeness, which leads to an enhancement of 
, 
, 
, and K+ at high baryon density. The baryon density is maximized around the NICA energies, and strangeness should be an ideal probe to investigate quark deconfinement phenomena of baryon-rich QCD matter created at NICA. We also utilize the hadron resonance gas model to estimate a mixed fluctuation of strangeness and baryon number.
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