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The high-multiplicity pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider energies with various heavy-ion-like signatures have warranted a deeper understanding of the underlying physics and particle production mechanisms. It is a common practice to use experimental data on the hadronic transverse momentum (\(p_T\)) spectra to extract thermodynamical properties of the system formed in heavy-ion and high multiplicity pp collisions. The non-availability of event topology dependent experimental data for pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s}\) = 13 TeV on the spectra of non-strange and strange hadrons constrains us to use the PYTHIA8 simulated numbers to extract temperature-like parameters to study the event shape and multiplicity dependence of specific heat capacity, conformal symmetry breaking measure (CSBM) and speed of sound. The observables show a clear dependence on event multiplicity and event topology. Thermodynamics of the system is largely governed by the light particles because of their relatively larger abundances. In this regards, a threshold in the particle production, \(\mathrm{N}_{ch} \simeq \) (10–20) in the final state multiplicity emerges out from the present study, confirming some of the earlier findings in this direction. As for heavier hadrons with relatively small abundances, a similar threshold is observed for \(\langle \mathrm{N}_{ch} \rangle \simeq \) 40 hinting towards formation of a thermal bath where all the heavier hadrons are in equilibrium.
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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: This is a theoretical/phenomenological paper, which uses data generated using PYTHIA8 event generator. In case simulated data are required by any reader, we shall provide the same upon request.]
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This work is supported by DAE-BRNS Project No. 58/14/29/2019-BRNS of R.S. and the DAE Principal Collaborator, J.A. The authors would like to thank Mr. Pritindra Bhowmick of IISER Bhopal for initial exploration of the present work during his short summer internship at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.
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Deb, S., Tripathy, S., Sarwar, G. et al. Deciphering QCD dynamics in small collision systems using event shape and final state multiplicity at the Large Hadron Collider. Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 252 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00258-x
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