Light-flavor particle production in high-multiplicity pp collisions at $\sqrt{\text{s}}=13$ TeV as a function of transverse spherocity

Abstract

Results on the transverse spherocity dependence of light-flavor particle production ($\pi$, K, p, $\varphi$, ${\mathrm{K}}^{\ast 0}$, ${\mathrm{K}}_{\mathrm{S}}^0$, $\Lambda$, $\Xi$) at midrapidity in high-multiplicity pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV were obtained with the ALICE apparatus. The transverse spherocity estimator ($S_{\mathrm{O}}^{p_{\mathrm{T}}=1}$) categorizes events by their azimuthal topology. Utilizing narrow selections on $S_{\text{O}}^{p_{\mathrm{T}}=1}$, it is possible to contrast particle production in collisions dominated by many soft initial interactions with that observed in collisions dominated by one or more hard scatterings. Results are reported for two multiplicity estimators covering different pseudorapidity regions. The $S_{\mathrm{O}}^{p_{\mathrm{T}}=1}$ estimator is found to effectively constrain the hardness of the events when the midrapidity ($\left|\eta \right|<0.8$) estimator is used. The production rates of strange particles are found to be slightly higher for soft isotropic topologies, and severely suppressed in hard jet-like topologies. These effects are more pronounced for hadrons with larger mass and strangeness content, and observed when the topological selection is done within a narrow multiplicity interval. This demonstrates that an important aspect of the universal scaling of strangeness enhancement with final-state multiplicity is that high-multiplicity collisions are dominated by soft, isotropic processes. On the contrary, strangeness production in events with jet-like processes is significantly reduced. The results presented in this article are compared with several QCD-inspired Monte Carlo event generators. Models that incorporate a two-component phenomenology, either through mechanisms accounting for string density, or thermal production, are able to describe the observed strangeness enhancement as a function of $S_{\mathrm{O}}^{p_{\mathrm{T}}=1}$.

51 pages, 19 captioned figures, 8 tables, authors from page 45, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/10075

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