Strangeness freeze-out: role of system size and missing resonances

The conventional approach to treat strangeness freezeout has been to consider a unified freezeout scheme where strangeness freezes out along with the nonstrange hadrons (1CFO), with or without an additional parameter accounting for out-of-equilibrium strangeness production (γS). Several alternate scenarios have been formulated lately. Here, we will focus on flavor dependent freezeout with early freezeout of strangeness (2CFO) in comparison to 1CFO and its variants with respect to the roles played by the system size and missing resonances predicted by different theoretical approaches but yet to be seen in experiments. In contrast to the performance of 1CFO with/without γS that is insensitive to system size, 2CFO exhibits a clear system size dependence-while for Pb+Pb the χ2/NDF is around 0-2, for smaller system size in p+Pb and p+p, the χ2/NDF> 5 and larger than 1CFO+γS. This clearly shows a system size dependence of the preference for the freezeout scheme, while 2CFO is preferred in Pb+Pb, 1CFO+γS is preferred in p+Pb and p+p. We have further investigated the role of the missing resonances on strangeness freezeout across SPS to LHC beam energies.

BARYONS IN A HYBRID QUARK-DIQUARK MODEL

One of the main problems in baryon spectroscopy is the presence of many so-called "missing resonances". A possible solution to this problem is to describe two correlated quarks inside the baryons by means of the diquark effective degree of freedom. Three different quark-diquark model are developed and compared. Some theoretical predictions are given and compared with the available experimental data.

PHOTOPRODUCTION OF η AND η′ MESONS ON THE NUCLEON

The isobar models η-MAID and η′-MAID have been used to analyze new data on quasi-free η photoproduction on the deuteron from Bonn and recent η′ data on the proton from Jlab. In η photoproduction on the neutron a bump around W = 1700 MeV was observed which could possibly arise from a narrow P11 state that is discussed as a non-strange member of the Θ+ antidecuplett. In η′ photoproduction on the proton resonance contributions are found that can be attributed to missing resonances in the energy region around W = 1900 MeV .