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Universality in hadronic and nuclear collisions at high energy

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Recent experimental results in proton-proton and in proton-nucleus collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies show a strong similarity to those observed in nucleus-nucleus collisions, where the formation of a quark-gluon… Click to show full abstract

Recent experimental results in proton-proton and in proton-nucleus collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies show a strong similarity to those observed in nucleus-nucleus collisions, where the formation of a quark-gluon plasma is expected. We discuss the comparison between small colliding systems and nucleus-nucleus collisions, for (a) the strangeness suppression factor ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{s}$ and yields of multi-strange hadrons; (b) the average transverse momentum, ${p}_{t}$, with particular attention to the low ${p}_{t}$ region where soft, nonperturbative effects are important; and (c) the elliptic flow scaled by the participant eccentricity. The universal behavior in hadronic and nuclear high energy collisions emerges for all these observables in terms of a specific dynamical variable which corresponds to the entropy density of initial system in the collision and which takes into account the transverse size of the initial configuration and its fluctuations.

Keywords: hadronic nuclear; high energy; nucleus collisions; universality hadronic; nuclear collisions

Journal Title: Physical Review C
Year Published: 2020

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