An enhanced production of particles with strange quarks has been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions — an important clue to understand how strange quarks form, and perhaps a hint of the quark–gluon plasma.
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Becattini, F. Alice in strangeland. Nature Phys 13, 531–532 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4144
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