Expected production of strange baryons and antibaryons in baryon-poor QGP

In a dynamical model of QGP at RHIC we obtain the temporal evolution of str ange phase space occupancy at conditions expected to occur in 100 + 100A Ge V nuclear collisions. We show that the sudden QGP break up model developed to describe the SPS experimental results implies dominance of both baryon a nd antibaryon abundances by the strange baryon and antibaryon yields. (C) 1 999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.