Charmed hadron analysis in small relativistic heavy ion systems at the LHC

Charmed hadrons, $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$and $D_{0}$, were measured in $\mathrm{pPb}$ collision at $\sqrt{s}=5.02 \mathrm{TeV}$ with the ALICE experiment. The following hadronic decay channels of $\Lambda_{c}^{+} \rightarrow K^{-} \pi^{+} p$ and $D_{0} \rightarrow$ $K^{-} \pi^{+}$were reconstructed. The purpose of this study was to measure the system size dependence of the charmed particle production by linking $\mathrm{pPb}$ measurements to $\mathrm{pp}$ and $\mathrm{PbPb}$ results. 600 million events were selected based on the number of tracklets in the inner detector, which serves as a charged particle multiplicity proxy, and thus as the estimator for the size of the system. The ratio of $\Lambda_{c}^{+}$to $D_{0}$ as a function transverse momentum is analyzed as a function of the charged particle multiplicity to see if higher multiplicity events exhibit enhanced baryon production, which could potentially be caused by the formation of small, thermally equilibrated QGP droplets.