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

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). Such an exotic state of strongly interacting quantum chromodynamics matter is produced in the laboratory in heavy nuclei hi...

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Hauptverfasser: Adam, Jaroslav (VerfasserIn) , Angelov, Venelin (VerfasserIn) , Arslandok, Mesut (VerfasserIn) , Danisch, Meike (VerfasserIn) , Deisting, Alexander (VerfasserIn) , Glässel, Peter (VerfasserIn) , Kim, Jiyoung (VerfasserIn) , Klewin, Sebastian (VerfasserIn) , Knichel, Michael Linus (VerfasserIn) , Leardini, Lucia (VerfasserIn) , Mercado Pérez, Jorge (VerfasserIn) , Oeschler, Helmut (VerfasserIn) , Ohlson, Alice (VerfasserIn) , Pachmayer, Yvonne C. (VerfasserIn) , Reidt, Felix (VerfasserIn) , Reygers, Klaus (VerfasserIn) , Schicker, Rainer (VerfasserIn) , Stachel, Johanna (VerfasserIn) , Stiller, Johannes Hendrik (VerfasserIn) , Völkl, Martin (VerfasserIn) , Weiser, Dennis (VerfasserIn) , Wilkinson, Jeremy (VerfasserIn) , Windelband, Bernd (VerfasserIn) , Winn, Michael (VerfasserIn) , Zimmermann, Alice (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: ALICE (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 24 April 2017
In: Nature physics
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 13, Heft: 6, Pages: 535-539
ISSN:1745-2481
DOI:10.1038/nphys4111
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys4111
Verlag, Volltext: https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v13/n6/full/nphys4111.html
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Verfasserangaben:Alice Collaboration
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Zusammenfassung: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). Such an exotic state of strongly interacting quantum chromodynamics matter is produced in the laboratory in heavy nuclei high-energy collisions, where an enhanced production of strange hadrons is observed. Strangeness enhancement, originally proposed as a signature of QGP formation in nuclear collisions, is more pronounced for multi-strange baryons. Several effects typical of heavy-ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions, but the enhanced production of multi-strange particles has not been reported so far. Here we present the first observation of strangeness enhancement in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions. We find that the integrated yields of strange and multi-strange particles, relative to pions, increases significantly with the event charged-particle multiplicity. The measurements are in remarkable agreement with the p-Pb collision results, indicating that the phenomenon is related to the final system created in the collision. In high-multiplicity events strangeness production reaches values similar to those observed in Pb-Pb collisions, where a QGP is formed.
Beschreibung:ALICE Collaboration: J. Adam, V. Anguelov, M. Arslandok, M.C. Danisch, A. Deisting, P. Glässel, J. Kim, S. Klewin, M.L. Knichel, L. Leardini, J. Mercado Pérez, H. Oeschler, A. Ohlson, Y. Pachmayer, F. Reidt, K. Reygers, R. Schicker, J. Stachel, J.H. Stiller, M.A. Völkl, D.F. Weiser, J. Wilkinson, B. Windelband, M. Winn, A. Zimmermann [und weitere]
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Beschreibung:Online Resource
ISSN:1745-2481
DOI:10.1038/nphys4111

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