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Jedlička Adam, Dagmar Adamová, Madan Mohan Aggarwal, Torsten Alt, Harald Appelshäuser, Mesut Arslandok, Raphae͏̈lle Bailhache, Esther Bartsch, Hans Beck, Christoph Blume, Julian Book, Timo Breitner, Theo Alexander Broker, Henner Büsching, Jan de Cuveland, Pascal Dillenseger, Benjamin Dönigus, Tatiana Drozhzhova, Heiko Engel, İrem Erdemir Özdemir, Andrés Gómez Ramírez, Sergey Gorbunov, Stefan Thomas Heckel, Ernst Hellbär, Dirk Hutter, Jason Adrian Kamin, Udo Kebschull, Stefan Kirsch, Ivan Kisel, Carsten Klein, Matthias Kretz, Mikolaj Krzewicki, Camilo Lara, Volker Lindenstruth, Philipp Lüttig, Marco Marquard, Mahmut Özdemir, Edgar Pérez Lezama, Vladimir Peskov, Theodor B. Rascanu, Patrick Reichelt, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, David Rohr, Baldo Sahlmüller, Simone Schuchmann, Alberica Toia, Maksym Zyzak

• The production of K∗(892)0 and ϕ(1020) mesons has been measured in p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. K∗0 and ϕ are reconstructed via their decay into charged hadrons with the ALICE detector in the rapidity range - 0.5 < y < 0. The transverse momentum spectra, measured as a function of the multiplicity, have a pT range from 0 to 15 GeV/c for K∗0 and from 0.3 to 21 GeV/c for ϕ. Integrated yields, mean transverse momenta and particle ratios are reported and compared with results in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. In Pb–Pb and p–Pb collisions, K∗0 and ϕ probe the hadronic phase of the system and contribute to the study of particle formation mechanisms by comparison with other identified hadrons. For this purpose, the mean transverse momenta and the differential proton-to-ϕ ratio are discussed as a function of the multiplicity of the event. The short-lived K∗0 is measured to investigate re-scattering effects, believed to be related to the size of the system and to the lifetime of the hadronic phase.