@article{3029670, title = "Production of pions, kaons, (anti-)protons and phi mesons in Xe-Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV", author = "Acharya, S. and Adamova, D. and Adler, A. and Adolfsson, J. and Rinella, and G. Aglieri and Agnello, M. and Agrawal, N. and Ahammed, Z. and Ahmad, S. and and Ahn, S. U. and Akbar, Z. and Akindinov, A. and Al-Turany, M. and and Albuquerque, D. S. D. and Aleksandrov, D. and Alessandro, B. and and Alfanda, H. M. and Alfaro Molina, R. and Ali, B. and Ali, Y. and Alici, and A. and Alizadehvandchali, N. and Alkin, A. and Alme, J. and Alt, T. and and Altenkamper, L. and Altsybeev, I and Anaam, M. N. and Andrei, C. and and Andreou, D. and Andronic, A. and Anguelov, V and Antinori, F. and and Antonioli, P. and Anuj, C. and Apadula, N. and Aphecetche, L. and and Appelshauser, H. and Arcelli, S. and Arnaldi, R. and Arratia, M. and and Arsene, I. C. and Arslandok, M. and Augustinus, A. and Averbeck, R. and and Aziz, S. and Azmi, M. D. and Badala, A. and Baek, Y. 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C. and Zardoshti, N. and and Zarochentsev, A. and Zavada, P. and Zaviyalov, N. and Zbroszczyk, H. and and Zhalov, M. and Zhang, S. and Zhang, X. and Zhang, Y. and Zherebchevskii, and V and Zhi, Y. and Zhou, D. and Zhou, Y. and Zhu, J. and Zhu, Y. and and Zichichi, A. and Zinovjev, G. and Zurlo, N. and ALICE Collaboration", journal = "The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields", year = "2021", volume = "81", number = "7", publisher = "Springer-Verlag", issn = "1434-6044, 1434-6052", doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09304-4", abstract = "The first measurement of the production of pions, kaons, (anti-)protons and phi mesons at midrapidity in Xe-Xe collisions at root 5.44 TeV is presented. Transverse momentum (pT) spectra and pT-integrated yields are extracted in several centrality intervals bridging from p-Pb to mid-central Pb-Pb collisions in terms of final-state multiplicity. The study of Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions allows systems at similar charged-particle multiplicities but with different initial geometrical eccentricities to be investigated. A detailed comparison of the spectral shapes in the two systems reveals an opposite behaviour for radial and elliptic flow. In particular, this study shows that the radial flow does not depend on the colliding system when compared at similar charged-particle multiplicity. In terms of hadron chemistry, the previously observed smooth evolution of particle ratios with multiplicity from small to large collision systems is also found to hold in Xe-Xe. In addition, our results confirm that two remarkable features of particle production at LHC energies are also valid in the collision of medium-sized nuclei: the lower proton-to-pion ratio with respect to the thermal model expectations and the increase of the phi-to-pion ratio with increasing final-state multiplicity." }