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Kaon production in high multiplicity events at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The production of the KS0K_S^0 meson in high multiplicity pppp collisions at s=\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV is investigated considering the hybrid formalism and the solution of the running coupling Balitsky - Kovchegov equation. The associated cross section is estimated and compared with the experimental data for the transverse momentum spectrum. Moreover, we analyze the self-normalized yields of KS0K_S^0 mesons as a function of the multiplicity of coproduced charged hadrons and demonstrate that a steep increasing is theoretically predicted. A comparison with the ALICE data is presented considering two distinct solutions of the BK equation.

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@article{arxiv.2208.11916,
  title  = {Kaon production in high multiplicity events at the LHC},
  author = {Yuri N. Lima and André V. Giannini and Victor P. Goncalves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11916},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures. Improved version to be published in Physical Review C