TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating strangeness enhancement with multiplicity in pp collisions using angular correlations
AU - The ALICE collaboration
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Adamová, D.
AU - Agarwal, A.
AU - Aglieri Rinella, G.
AU - Aglietta, L.
AU - Agnello, M.
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahmad, S.
AU - Ahn, S. U.
AU - Ahuja, I.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Akishina, V.
AU - Al-Turany, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Alessandro, B.
AU - Alfanda, H. M.
AU - Alfaro Molina, R.
AU - Ali, B.
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Alizadehvandchali, N.
AU - Alkin, A.
AU - Alme, J.
AU - Alocco, G.
AU - Alt, T.
AU - Altamura, A. R.
AU - Altsybeev, I.
AU - Alvarado, J. R.
AU - Alvarez, C. O.R.
AU - Anaam, M. N.
AU - Andrei, C.
AU - Andreou, N.
AU - Andronic, A.
AU - Andronov, E.
AU - Anguelov, V.
AU - Antinori, F.
AU - Antonioli, P.
AU - Apadula, N.
AU - Aphecetche, L.
AU - Appelshäuser, H.
AU - Arata, C.
AU - Arcelli, S.
AU - Aresti, M.
AU - Arnaldi, R.
AU - Arneiro, J. G.M.C.A.
AU - Arsene, I. C.
AU - Arslandok, M.
AU - Augustinus, A.
AU - Bazo Alba, J. L.
AU - Gago, A. M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - A study of strange hadron production associated with hard scattering processes and with the underlying event is conducted to investigate the origin of the enhanced production of strange hadrons in small collision systems characterised by large charged-particle multiplicities. For this purpose, the production of the single-strange meson KS0 and the double-strange baryon Ξ± is measured, in each event, in the azimuthal direction of the highest-pT particle (“trigger” particle), related to hard scattering processes, and in the direction transverse to it in azimuth, associated with the underlying event, in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV and s = 13 TeV using the ALICE detector at the LHC. The per-trigger yields of KS0 and Ξ± are dominated by the transverse-to-leading production (i.e., in the direction transverse to the trigger particle), whose contribution relative to the toward-leading production is observed to increase with the event charged-particle multiplicity. The transverse-to-leading and the toward-leading Ξ±/KS0 yield ratios increase with the multiplicity of charged particles, suggesting that strangeness enhancement with multiplicity is associated with both hard scattering processes and the underlying event. The relative production of Ξ± with respect to KS0 is higher in transverse-to-leading processes over the whole multiplicity interval covered by the measurement. The KS0 and Ξ± per-trigger yields and yield ratios are compared with predictions of three different phenomenological models, namely Pythia8.2 with the Monash tune, Pythia8.2 with ropes and EPOS LHC. The comparison shows that none of them can quantitatively describe either the transverse-to-leading or the toward-leading yields of KS0 and Ξ±.
AB - A study of strange hadron production associated with hard scattering processes and with the underlying event is conducted to investigate the origin of the enhanced production of strange hadrons in small collision systems characterised by large charged-particle multiplicities. For this purpose, the production of the single-strange meson KS0 and the double-strange baryon Ξ± is measured, in each event, in the azimuthal direction of the highest-pT particle (“trigger” particle), related to hard scattering processes, and in the direction transverse to it in azimuth, associated with the underlying event, in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV and s = 13 TeV using the ALICE detector at the LHC. The per-trigger yields of KS0 and Ξ± are dominated by the transverse-to-leading production (i.e., in the direction transverse to the trigger particle), whose contribution relative to the toward-leading production is observed to increase with the event charged-particle multiplicity. The transverse-to-leading and the toward-leading Ξ±/KS0 yield ratios increase with the multiplicity of charged particles, suggesting that strangeness enhancement with multiplicity is associated with both hard scattering processes and the underlying event. The relative production of Ξ± with respect to KS0 is higher in transverse-to-leading processes over the whole multiplicity interval covered by the measurement. The KS0 and Ξ± per-trigger yields and yield ratios are compared with predictions of three different phenomenological models, namely Pythia8.2 with the Monash tune, Pythia8.2 with ropes and EPOS LHC. The comparison shows that none of them can quantitatively describe either the transverse-to-leading or the toward-leading yields of KS0 and Ξ±.
KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
KW - Particle and Resonance Production
KW - Particle Correlations and Fluctuations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205502715&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2024)204
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2024)204
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85205502715
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2024
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 9
M1 - 204
ER -