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9 - Physics
University of Birmingham
Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200 GeV
Jones was convener the Strangeness Physics Working Group for 5 years during the construction and early data-taking phase of the STAR experiment. He wrote much of the strange particle reconstruction software that was used by the working group and he made significant contribution to the analysis of the data that went into this paper. This paper assesses the status of enhanced strange particle production as a signature of quark-gluon plasma formation. It also explores the competing mechanisms of strangeness enhancement, quark coalescence and jet suppression that dominate in different regions of transverse momentum.