Speaker
Description
Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC provide a fascinating testing ground for studying fundamental physical effects in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), such as the production of conserved charges at a microscopic level. The goal of this analysis is to study the production mechanisms for strangeness and baryon number, as well as how these mechanisms affect each other, in a QCD-dominated environment. Using the ALICE detector, data from Run 3 Pb--Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV are used to construct two-particle balance functions, which show where particles carrying a conserved charge are most likely to be formed relative to each other. For this analysis specifically, $\Lambda$ - K and $\Lambda$ - p balance functions are used to study strangeness and baryon number production, respectively. These balance functions are complemented by $\Lambda$ - $\pi$ balance functions, which lack both strangeness and baryon number correlations and serve as a baseline.
| Category | Experiment |
|---|---|
| Collaboration (if applicable) | ALICE Collaboration |
