Abstract
Transverse hadron spectra from proton–proton, proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions from 2 A·GeV to 21.3 A·TeV are investigated within two independent transport approaches (HSD and UrQMD). For central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions at energies above Elab ∼ 5 A·GeV, the measured K± transverse mass spectra have a larger inverse slope parameter than expected from the default calculations. The additional pressure — as supported by lattice QCD calculations at finite quark chemical potential μq and temperature T — might be generated by strong interactions in the early pre-hadronic/partonic phase of central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions E.L. Bratkovskaya et al., Phys. Rev. C 69 (2004) 054907.
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