Light-flavour Hadron Production Investigated in Xe–Xe Collisions with ALICE Experiment at the LHC

Light-flavour hadron production has been studied in \(pp\), \(p\)–Pb, Pb–Pb, and, most recently, in Xe–Xe collisions. In this work, the production of pions, kaons, (anti-)protons, \(\phi \) mesons, \(K^{0}_{\mathrm {S}}\), \({\mit \Xi }\), and \({\mit \Omega }\) at midrapidity in Xe–Xe collisions at \(\sqrt {s_{NN}} = 5.44\) TeV is presented. Comparison of Xe–Xe and Pb–Pb collision systems at similar multiplicities can bring us new information about the behavior of systems with different initial geometrical eccentricities. Results show that integrated yields of strange particles increase with the charged-particle multiplicity. Abstract Published by the Jagiellonian University 2025 authors