Observation of abnormal suppression of f0(980) production in p–Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV

• Published in: Physics letters. B 2024-06, Vol.853, Article 138665
• Main Authors: Altsybeev, I., Andrei, C., Aresti, M., Arneiro, J.G.M.C.A., Barnby, L.S., Bazo Alba, J.L., Bellwied, R., Beltran, L.G.E., Berdnikova, A., Bhat, M.A., Boldizsár, L., Borquez Carcamo, A.G., Bufalino, S., Cho, J., Danu, A., de Cuveland, J., De Gruttola, D., Diaz, R.A., Evans, D., Evdokimov, S., Gautam, A., Goh, D.J.Q., Gotovac, S., Graczykowski, L.K., Grunwald, N.A., Gunji, T., Gwizdziel, K., Han, Y., Hansen, J., Harris, J.W., Hauer, P., Herman, T., Ippolitov, M., Isidori, T., Jahnke, C., Keijdener, D.L.D., Khuranova, Z., Kim, D.J., Klemenz, T., Kovalenko, V., Langoy, R., Legras, G., Lippmann, C., Loizides, C., Malik, N.M., Malik, Q.W., Mandal, S.K., Manso, F., Markert, C., Mastroserio, A., Matonoha, O., Melikyan, Y., Meninno, E., Mihaylov, D.L., Miśkowiec, D., Modak, A., Mulliri, A., Nattrass, C., Nellen, L., Piano, S., Politano, S., Preghenella, R., Pugelova, Z., Rami, F., Read, K.F., Reidt, F., Richter, M., Romanenko, G., Roslon, K., Rossi, A., Sadhu, S., Saetre, J., Saha, S., Sahoo, R., Sahu, D., Sakai, S., Schambach, J., Selina, M., Selyuzhenkov, I., Šerkšnytė, L., Shahoyan, R., Sharma, D., Shirinkin, S., Singh, V.K., Sitta, M., Smirnov, N., Sonnabend, C., Takahashi, J., Tang, S., Triolo, A.S., Tumkin, A., van Leeuwen, M., Varga, D., Vickovic, L., Winn, M., Yadav, A.K., Yalcin, S., Yano, S., Zanone, F., Zhang, B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138665

The dependence of f0(980) production on the final-state charged-particle multiplicity in p–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV is reported. The production of f0(980) is measured with the ALICE detector via the f0(980)→π+π− decay channel in a midrapidity region of −0.5