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Experiments at RHIC and the LHC have lately reported intriguing results that indicate the presence of collectivity in small collision systems. The first hints originated from two-particle azimuthal correlations studies. The charge dependent part of such correlations is studied using the balance function in the relative pseudorapidity (∆η) and azimuthal angle (∆φ) of the particle pair. This measurement has been used as an effective tool to investigate the properties of the system created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions such as the hadronization time, the freeze-out conditions and to characterise its collective motion. In addition, the study of the balance function for different particle species in A-A collisions provides valuable insight to the chemical evolution of the QGP.
In this poster, we report the measurement of the balance function of identified particles in pp collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV recorded by ALICE. This analysis, performed as a function of multiplicity, is an important piece in understanding if the underlying physics phenomena of particle production are of a common origin across collision systems.
