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The study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, such as those of Pb-Pb or Au-Au nuclei performed in the LHC and RHIC, has already demonstrated the capability to produce a deconfined state of hadronic matter called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which has a collective behavior described by a relativistic viscous hydrodynamic. It is still unknown whether the QGP is also produced in collisions of so-called small systems, like those between protons and Pb nuclei. Thus, in this work, we propose to analyze small systems collisions through hybrid simulations and study the macroscopic thermodynamic properties of the system that are linked with experimental data collected in these collisions. The results of these analyses show we can achieve a connection between the system temperature and the transverse momentum. We also show that the entropy density produced in central simulated events is consistent with results from Lattice QCD, supporting the production of QGP in central small system collisions. Hence, this work advances the understanding of the production of QGP in small systems.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Theoretical |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | ALICE |
