https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13375-4
Letter
A test of strangeness quantum number conservation in proton-proton collisions
1
Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
2
Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Via Alfonso Valerio 2, 34127, Trieste, Italy
Received:
19
July
2024
Accepted:
1
September
2024
Published online:
2
October
2024
The study delves into the production of (multi-) strange hadrons in proton-proton collisions at LHC. Novel observables are proposed to distinguish between Epos4, based on core-corona separation between a thermalised QGP phase and a vacuum phase with global strangeness conservation, and Pythia 8.3, based on microscopic interactions between Lund strings that conserve strangeness locally. Correlations between a 
meson and (multi-)strange hadrons are shown to be an excellent discriminator between the two types of models.
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13375-4.
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