Recent measurements of strangeness and heavy flavor at STAR

TL;DR

The STAR Collaboration has collected diverse ion collision data enabling studies of hot dense matter, with recent measurements focusing on strangeness and heavy flavor production.

Contribution

This work presents new measurements of strangeness and heavy flavor production in ion-ion collisions from the STAR experiment.

Findings

Data covers a wide range of collision energies and species.

Recent measurements provide insights into the properties of hot dense matter.

Results contribute to understanding quark-gluon plasma characteristics.

Abstract

The STAR Collaboration has collected collision data at a wide variety of center-of-mass energies and with several different species of colliding ions ($p$+$p$, Au+Au, Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr, and O+O). This data set enables a many studies of the properties of the hot and dense matter produced in ion-ion collisions, using a variety of probes. In these proceedings, recent STAR measurements of strangeness and heavy flavor production in ion-ion collisions are discussed.