articleNature PhysicsApr 24, 2017HYBRID OA

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

Czech Technical University in Prague · Czech Academy of Sciences, Nuclear Physics Institute · +138 more institutions

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Abstract

Abstract 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 chromodynamics matter is produced in the laboratory in heavy nuclei high-energy collisions, where an enhanced production of strange hadrons is observed 2,3,4,5,6 . Strangeness enhancement, originally proposed as a signature of QGP formation in nuclear collisions 7 , is more pronounced for multi-strange baryons. Several effects typical of heavy-ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton (pp) collisions 8,9 , but the enhanced production of…

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Keywords
  • Physics
  • Strangeness production
  • Strangeness
  • Quark–gluon plasma
  • Nuclear physics
  • Hadron
  • Particle physics
  • Strange quark
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