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    Acharya, S; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Basu, Sumit; Christiansen, Peter; Matonoha, Oliver; Nassirpour, Adrian; Ohlson, Alice; Oskarsson, Anders; Richert, Tuva; Vazquez Rueda, Omar; Silvermyr, David; Zurlo, N

    Physical review letters, 11/2021, Letnik: 127, Številka: 20
    Journal Article

    The prompt production of the charm baryon Λ+c and the Λ+c/D0 production ratios were measured at midrapidity with the ALICE detector in pp and p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. These new measurements show a clear decrease of the Λ+c/D0 ratio with increasing transverse momentum (pT) in both collision systems in the range 2<pT<12 GeV/c, exhibiting similarities with the light-flavor baryon-to-meson ratios p/π and Λ/K0S. At low pT, predictions that include additional color-reconnection mechanisms beyond the leading-color approximation, assume the existence of additional higher-mass charm-baryon states, or include hadronization via coalescence can describe the data, while predictions driven by charm-quark fragmentation processes measured in e+e− and e−p collisions significantly underestimate the data. The results presented in this Letter provide significant evidence that the established assumption of universality (colliding-system independence) of parton-to-hadron fragmentation is not sufficient to describe charm-baryon production in hadronic collisions at LHC energies.