Thermal Model Description of p--Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV

Abstract

The ALICE data on light flavor hadron production obtained in $p-Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV are studied in the thermal model using the canonical approach with exact strangeness conservation. The chemical freeze-out temperature is independent of centrality except for the lowest multiplicity bin, with values close to 160 MeV but consistent with those obtained in $Pb-Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV. The value of the strangeness non-equilibrium factor ${\gamma }_s$ is slowly increasing with multiplicity from 0.9 to 0.96, i.e. it is always very close to full chemical equilibrium.

10 pages, 12 figures

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