Strangeness Production via Parton Cascade
  We study pre-equilibrium strangeness production at RHIC energies in a new parton cascade. Starting with the turbulent glue HIJING initial conditions we investigate the interplay between mini-jet and soft beam jet gluons for strangeness production prior to hadronization, and show the importance of soft beam jet gluons in the strangeness production. 
Bin Zhang, Miklos Gyulassy and Yang Pang (Columbia U.)