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The main goal of the ALICE experiment is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter, including the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The relative production of strange hadrons with respect to non-strange hadrons in heavy-ion collisions was historically considered one of the signatures of QGP formation. However, recent measurements in proton-proton (pp) and proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions have shown features that are reminiscent of those observed in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions, exhibiting an increase in the production of strange hadrons relative to pions with the charged particle multiplicity in the event.
We report the new preliminary mid-rapidity measurement of the transverse momentum spectra and yields of ${\rm K^{0}_{s}}$, $\Lambda$ and $\bar \Lambda$ in the p-Pb collision system at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 8.16 TeV. Results have been obtained in several multiplicity bins, so that a comparison to lower energy p-Pb results and to similar measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions can be performed. Finally, the comparison to phenomenological models will be discussed.
