title: Is there a flavor hierarchy in the deconfinement transition of QCD?
abstract: We present possible indications for flavor separation during the QCD crossover transition based on continuum extrapolated lattice QCD calculations of higher order susceptibilities. We base our findings on flavor-specific quantities in the light and strange quark sector. We propose a possible experimental verification of our prediction, based on the measurement of higher order moments of identified particle multiplicities. Since all our calculations are performed at zero baryochemical potential, these results are of particular relevance for the heavy-ion program at the LHC.
authors.affiliation: University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
authors.forename: Rene
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bellwied
authors.forename: Szabolcs
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Borsanyi
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fodor
authors.forename: Sándor D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ratti