TY - INPR A1 - Bleicher, Marcus A1 - Bratkovskaya, Elena L. A1 - Vogel, Sascha A1 - Zhu, Xianglei T1 - Transverse pressure and strangeness dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion reactions N2 - Transverse hadron spectra from proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions from 2 AGeV to 21.3 ATeV are investigated within two independent transport approaches (HSD and UrQMD). For central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions at energies above E lab ~ 5 AGeV, the measured K +- transverse mass spectra have a larger inverse slope parameter than expected from the default calculations. The additional pressure - as suggested by lattice QCD calculations at finite quark chemical potential mu q and temperature T - might be generated by strong interactions in the early pre-hadronic/partonic phase of central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions. This is supported by a non-monotonic energy dependence of v2/pT in the present transport model. Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3433 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-19854 ER -