TY - INPR A1 - Gorenstein, Mark I. A1 - Gaździcki, Marek A1 - Zozulya, Oleksandr S. T1 - Fluctuations of strangeness and deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions T2 - Physics Letters B N2 - We suggest that the fluctuations of strange hadron multiplicity could be sensitive to the equation of state and microscopic structure of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. They may serve as an important tool in the study of the deconfinement phase transition. We predict, within the statistical model of the early stage, that the ratio of properly filtered fluctuations of strange to non-strange hadron multiplicities should have a non-monotonic energy dependence with a minimum in the mixed phase region. Y1 - 2004 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3849 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-16397 VL - 585 IS - 3-4 ER -