Exploring Collective Effects in Small Collision Systems via Light-Flavour Particle Production in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV in ALICE

Rajendra Nath Patra for the ALICE Collaboration

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Exploring Collective Effects in Small Collision Systems via Light-Flavour Particle Production in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV in ALICE

Rajendra Nath Patra for the ALICE Collaboration

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High-multiplicity pp and p-Pb collisions show signatures of radial and anisotropic flow, as well as the enhanced production of strange hadrons. These observations resemble phenomena seen in heavy-ion collisions, where a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is formed, although their origin in small systems remains under discussion. This contribution presents ALICE Run 2 results on light-flavour hadron ($π$, K, p) production in high-multiplicity (HM) pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV, where the charged-particle multiplicity reaches values comparable to peripheral or semi-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions. The multiplicity dependence of $π$, K, and p transverse momentum spectra, $p_{\rm T}$-differential and $p_{\rm T}$-integrated particle ratios, and mean transverse momenta ($\langle p_{\rm T}\rangle$) is presented and compared with published results from other collision systems and energies, as well as with PYTHIA 8 and EPOS4 model calculations.

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Rajendra Nath Patra for the ALICE Collaboration. 2026-10-10. Exploring Collective Effects in Small Collision Systems via Light-Flavour Particle Production in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV in ALICE. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14851

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