| Soft Hadron Ratios at the LHC (2005) | |||||||||
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| High precision soft hadron abundance data produced in relativistic nuclear collisions at LHC at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}\le 5500$ GeV will become available beginning in 2007/8. We explore, within the statistical hadronization model, how these results can help us understand the properties of the deconfined quark--gluon phase at its breakup. We make assumptions about the physical properties of the fireball and obtain particle production predictions. Then, we develop a strategy to measure parameters of interest, such as strangeness occupancy $\gamma_s$, chemical potentials $\mu_{\rm B}$ and $\mu_{\rm S}$.. Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, v2: clarifications added, title simplified; accepted for publication in the European Journal of Physics C | |||||||||
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