since, as we shall see, it allows to calculate analytically many properties of the spectra assuming Tsallis form of the scaling function (\[Tsallis\]).

Secondly, if we would take seriously kinematics for massive particle production, then Bjorken $x$ would be given by Eq. (\[Bjx\]) with $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ replaced by $m_{\mathrm{T}}$. Hence the natural choice for the scaling variable would be ($m_{\mathrm{T}}$ – scaling) $$\tau_{{m}_{\text{T}}} =\frac{{m}_{\text{T}}^{2}}{Q_{0}^{2}}\left(  \frac{m_{\text{T}}}%
{W}\right)  ^{\lambda}.\label{taumdef}%$$ We shall show, however, that for this choice of the scaling variable GS is not present.

The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. \[scaling\] we shall test GS scaling hypothesis on the recent ALICE data for identified particles [@ALICE]. We will see that $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ spectra exhibit $\tilde
{m}_{\mathrm{T}}$–scaling in variable (\[taumtdef\]). After that, in Sect. \[conseq\], we shall examine the consequences of GS as far as the energy dependence of total multiplicity and mean transverse momentum is concerned. We shall see that power-like growth of both of them is a natural consequence of GS. Finally in Sect. \[shape\] we shall match hypothesis of GS and phenomenological observation that particle spectra are well described by the Tsallis-like distribution. It will be shown that Tsallis temperature is proportional to the average saturation scale depending only 