System Size and Flavour Dependence of Chemical Freeze-out Temperatures in ALICE Data from pp, pPb and PbPb Collisions at LHC Energies

Abstract

We present the system size and flavour dependence of the chemical freeze-out temperature ($T_{\mathrm{ch}}$) at vanishing baryo-chemical potential calculated via thermal fits to experimental yields for several multiplicity classes in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions measured by ALICE. Using the Thermal-FIST Hadron Resonance Gas model package, we compare the quality of fits across various treatments of strangeness conservation under different freeze-out conditions as a function of the charged particle multiplicity density $⟨d{N}_{\mathrm{ch}}/d\eta ⟩$. Additionally, we examine how the anti-hadron to pion yield ratios of light and strange baryons, as well as the $\varphi$ meson, evolve within a flavour-dependent model. Through a unique two-temperature chemical freeze-out approach, we show that flavour dependence of $T_{\mathrm{ch}}$ in a Strangeness Canonical Ensemble leads to a natural explanation of strangeness enhancement from small to large systems at LHC energies without requiring any non-equilibrium particle production at small $⟨d{N}_{\mathrm{ch}}/d\eta ⟩$.

7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to and accepted by Physics Letters B

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