Enhanced production of multi-strange hadrons in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions

KARASU UYSAL, Ayben | ALICE Collaboration

At sufficiently high temperature and energy density, nuclear matter undergoes a transition to a phase in which quarks and gluons are not confined: the quark–gluon plasma (QGP)1. Such an exotic state of strongly interacting quantum chro- modynamics matter is produced in the laboratory in heavy nuclei high-energy collisions, where an enhanced production of strange hadrons is observed2–6. Strangeness enhancement, originally proposed as a signature of QGP formation in nuc- lear collisions7 , is more pronounced for multi-strange baryons. Several effects typical of heavy-ion phenomenology have been ...Daha fazlası