title: Baryon-strangeness correlations: a diagnostic of strongly interacting matter.
abstract: The correlation between baryon number and strangeness elucidates the nature of strongly interacting matter, such as that formed transiently in high-energy nuclear collisions. This diagnostic can be extracted theoretically from lattice QCD calculations and experimentally from event-by-event fluctuations. The analysis of present lattice results above the critical temperature severely limits the presence of qq bound states, thus supporting a picture of independent (quasi)quarks.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Majumder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Randrup