Abstract

We suppose that overall strangeness production in both high energy elementary and heavy ion collisions can be described within the framework of an equilibrium statistical model in which the effective degrees of freedom are constituent quarks as used in effective lagrangian models. In this picture, the excess of relative strangeness production in heavy ion collisions with respect to elementary particle collisions arises from the unbalance between initial non-strange matter and antimatter and from the exact colour and flavour quantum number conservation over different finite volumes. The comparison with the data and the possible sources of model dependence are discussed.

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