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Mohamed Samy Abdallah, Bassam Aboona, Jaroslav Adam, Leszek Adamczyk, Joseph R. Adams, J. Kevin Adkins, Geydar Agakishiev, I. Aggarwal, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Zubayer Ahammed, Igor G. Alekseev, Derek M. Anderson, Alexey Aparin, Elke Caroline Aschenauer, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, Fareha Atetalla, Anjali Attri, Georgy S. Averichev, Vipul Bairathi, W. Baker, Jonathan Gonzalo Ball Cap, Kenneth Barish, Arabinda Behera, Rene Bellwied, P. Bhagat, Anju Bhasin, Jaroslav Bielčík, Jana Bielčíková, Igor G. Bordyuzhin, James D. Brandenburg, Andrei V. Brandin, Ivan Bunzarov, Joseph Butterworth, X.Z. Cai, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Daniel A. Cebra, Irakli Chakaberia, Petr Chaloupka, B.K. Chan, F.-H. Chang, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, D. Chen, J. Chen, J.H. Chen, X. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Chevalier, Subikash Choudhury, William Christie, X. Chu, Henry J. Crawford, Máté Csanád, M. Daugherity, Tatiana G. 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Jacobs, Chitrasen Jena, Alexander Jentsch, Y. Ji, J. Jia, K. Jiang, X. Ju, Eleanor G. Judd, Sonia Kabana, M.L. Kabir, Skipper Kagamaster, Dmitry Kalinkin, K. Kang, David Kapukchyan, Kolja Kauder, Hongwei Ke, Declan Keane, Armen Kechechyan, Matthew Kelsey, Yevheniia V. Khyzhniak, Daniel P. Kikoła, C. Kim, B. Kimelman, D. Kincses, Ivan Kisel, A. Kiselev, Anders Garritt Knospe, H.S. Ko, L. M. Kočenda, Leszek Krzysztof Kosarzewski, Lukáš Kramárik, Peter Kravtsov, Lokesh Kumar, Shyam Kumar, Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Joseph H. Kwasizur, Roy Alphanso Lacey, S. Lan, Jeffery M. Landgraf, Jerome Lauret, Alexei Lebedev, Richard Lednicky, J.H. Lee, Y.H. Leung, C. Li, C. Li, W. Li, Xiaomei Li, Y. Li, X. Liang, Y. Liang, Robert Licenik, T. Lin, Y. Lin, Michael A. Lisa, F. Liu, H. Liu, H. Liu, P. Liu, T. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, Tonko A. Ljubicic, William Joseph Llope, Ronald S. Longacre, E. Loyd, N.S. Lukow, X.F. Luo, L. Ma, R. 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Zhang, Zuman Zhang, Zuman Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhou, You Zhou, X. Zhu, Marian Zurek, Maksym Zyzak

• We report the first multi-differential measurements of strange hadrons of K −, φ and − yields as well as the ratios of φ/K − and φ/− in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 3 GeV with the STAR experiment fixed target configuration at RHIC. The φ mesons and − hyperons are measured through hadronic decay channels, φ → K + K − and Ξ− → Λπ−. Collision centrality and rapidity dependence of the transverse momentum spectra for these strange hadrons are presented. The 4π yields and ratios are compared to thermal model and hadronic transport model predictions. At this collision energy, thermal model with grand canonical ensemble (GCE) under-predicts the φ/K − and φ/− ratios while the result of canonical ensemble (CE) calculations reproduce φ/K −, with the correlation length rc ∼ 2.7 fm, and φ/−, rc ∼ 4.2 fm, for the 0-10% central collisions. Hadronic transport models including high mass resonance decays could also describe the ratios. While thermal calculations with GCE work well for strangeness production in high energy collisions, the change to CE at 3 GeV implies a rather different medium property at high baryon density.