Deconfinement and degrees of freedom in pp and collisions at LHC energies Aditya N Mishra, Guy Paić, C. Pajares, R. P. Scharenberg and B. K. Srivastava Eur. Phys. J. A, 57 7 (2021) 245 Published online: 21 July 2021 DOI: 10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00552-2