- Accepted Paper
Baryon enhancement in jets
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 14 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/l2xp-jqxt
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 14 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/l2xp-jqxt
The enhancement of the baryon production relative to mesons in small-collision systems is considered a breakthrough result of the Large Hadron Collider since a similar effect in heavy-ion collisions is understood by invoking the formation of the strongly-interacting quark–gluon plasma. In this paper, a baryon enhancement is reported for $p_{\rm T}^{\rm ch,\, jet}>15$,GeV/ jets produced in pp collisions at ,TeV simulated with PYTHIA8. The effect can be explained as a transition between quark-initiated jets (low jet multiplicities) to gluon-initiated jets (high jet multiplicities). The present result contributes to a deeper understanding of the multiplicity dependence of baryon enhancement across different collision systems.
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