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Baryon enhancement in jets

Antonio Ortiz

Róbert Vértesi*

  • Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Circuito exterior s/n Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico

  • *Contact author: vertesi.robert@wigner.hu
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 094011 – Published 12 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/l2xp-jqxt

Abstract

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 pTch,jet>15  GeV/c jets produced in pp collisions at s=13  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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Phys. Rev. D 114, 094011– Published 12 November, 2026
  • Received 24 April 2026
  • Accepted 14 October 2026
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