Strangeness Enhancement in p-A Collisions: Consequences for the   Interpretation of Strangeness Production in A-A Collisions
  Published measurements of semi-inclusive Lambda production in p-Au collisions at the AGS are used to estimate the yields of singly strange hadrons in nucleus-nucleus A-A collisions. Results of a described extrapolation technique are shown and compared to measurements of K+ production in Si-Al, Si-Au, and Au-Au collisions at the AGS and net Lambda production in Su-Su, S-Ag, Pb-Pb, and inclusive p-A collisions at the SPS. The extrapolations can account for more than 75% of the measured strange particle yields in all of the studied systems except for very central Au-Au collisions at the AGS where RQMD comparisons suggest large re-scattering contributions. 
B.A. Cole, X.H. Yang, V. Cianciolo, A. Frawley, E.P. Hartouni, H.   Hiejima, A. Lebedev, N. Maeda, S. Mioduszewski, K. Read,...