Hawking-Unruh Hadronization and Strangeness Production in High Energy Collisions
The thermal multihadron production observed in different high energy collisions poses many basic problems: why do even elementary, e+e- and hadron-hadron, collisions show thermal behaviour? Why is there in such interactions a suppression of strange particle production? Why does the strangeness suppr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Advances in High Energy Physics |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/376982 |
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| Summary: | The thermal multihadron production observed in different high energy collisions poses many basic problems: why do even elementary, e+e- and hadron-hadron, collisions show thermal behaviour? Why is there in such interactions a suppression of strange particle production? Why does the strangeness suppression almost disappear in relativistic heavy ion collisions? Why in these collisions is the thermalization time less than ≃0.5 fm/c? We show that the recently proposed mechanism of thermal hadron production through Hawking-Unruh radiation can naturally answer the previous questions. Indeed, the interpretation of quark (q)-antiquark (q̅) pairs production, by the sequential string breaking, as tunneling through the event horizon of colour confinement leads to thermal behavior with a universal temperature, T≃170 Mev, related to the quark acceleration, a, by T=a/2π. The resulting temperature depends on the quark mass and then on the content of the produced hadrons, causing a deviation from full equilibrium and hence a suppression of strange particle production in elementary collisions. In nucleus-nucleus collisions, where the quark density is much bigger, one has to introduce an average temperature (acceleration) which dilutes the quark mass effect and the strangeness suppression almost disappears. |
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| ISSN: | 1687-7357 1687-7365 |