prof. dr, dr h.c. Helmut Satz, Univ. of Bielefeld

Thermal Multiparticle Production as Hawking-Unruh Radiation

High energy collisions lead to multihadron production. The abundances of the produced hadrons are in accord with emission by a thermal source of a universal temperature, even when the number of hadrons hardly justifies a thermal description. We show that tunneling through the confinement horizon justifies thermal behavior as the QCD analog of Hawking-Unruh radiation.