https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5767-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Thermal model description of p–Pb collisions at 
TeV
1
Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
2
UCT-CERN Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
* e-mail: jean.cleymans@uct.ac.za
Received:
26
February
2018
Accepted:
26
March
2018
Published online:
9
April
2018
The ALICE data on light flavor hadron production obtained in p–Pb collisions at TeV are studied in the thermal model using the canonical approach with exact strangeness conservation. The chemical freeze-out temperature is independent of centrality except for the lowest multiplicity bin, with values close to 160 MeV but consistent with those obtained in Pb–Pb collisions at 
TeV. The value of the strangeness non-equilibrium factor 
is slowly increasing with multiplicity from 0.9 to 0.96, i.e. it is always very close to full chemical equilibrium.
© The Author(s), 2018
