Hadronic Resonance Gas Model and Multiplicity Dependence in p-p, p-Pb, Pb-Pb collisions: Strangeness Enhancement

TL;DR

The paper explains the multiplicity-dependent strangeness enhancement observed in high-energy collisions using an extended thermal model that incorporates exact strangeness conservation and hadron interactions, matching ALICE data.

Contribution

It introduces an extended thermal model with exact strangeness conservation and S-matrix interactions to explain particle yield patterns across different collision systems.

Findings

Thermal model reproduces ALICE particle ratios with multiplicity dependence.

Inclusion of hadron interactions improves model-data agreement.

Yields align with the chiral-crossover temperature.

Abstract

Recently the ALICE collaboration has observed an interesting systematic behaviour of ratios of identified particles to pions yields at the LHC, showing that they depend solely on the charged-particle multiplicity in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions. In particular, the yields of (multi)strange particles relative to pions, increases with multiplicity and the enhancement is mode pronounced with increasing strangeness content. We will argue, that such a pattern of arises naturally in the thermal model taking into account exact strangeness conservation. Furthermore, extending the thermal model by including hadron interactions within the S-matrix approach, the ALICE data can be well quantified by the thermal particle yields at the chiral-crossover temperature, as previously found in central Pb-Pb collisions.