Hawking-Unruh Hadronization and Strangeness Production in High Energy Collisions

Paolo Castorina (Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95100 Catania, Italy; INFN Sezione di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95100 Catania, Italy; PH Department, TH Unit, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland) ; Helmut Satz (Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany)

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, T170 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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Published on:
11 May 2014
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Published in:
Advances in High Energy Physics (2014)

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/376982
Copyrights:
Copyright © 2014 Paolo Castorina and Helmut Satz.
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CC-BY-3.0

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