https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147100119
Hadrosynthesis and Quark Confinement
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
a e-mail: satz@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Published online: 29 April 2014
Multihadron production in high energy collisions, from e+e− annihilation to heavy ion interactions, shows remarkable thermal behaviour, specified by a universal “Hagedorn” temperature. We argue that this hadronic radiation is formed by tunnelling through the event horizon of colour confinement, i.e., that it is the QCD counterpart of Hawking-Unruh radiation from black holes. It is shown to be emitted at a universal temperature TH ≃ (σ/2π)1/2, where σ denotes the string tension. Since the event horizon does not allow information transfer, the radiation is thermal “at birth”.
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