Quantum Collective QCD String Dynamics

The string breaking model of particle production is extended in order to help explain the transverse momentum distribution in elementary collisions. Inspired by an idea of Bialas', we treat the string using a collective coordinate approach. This leads to a chromo-electric field strength which fluctuates, and in turn implies that quarks are produced according to a thermal distribution.Comment: 6 pages. Presented at SQM 2006. Submitted to J. Phys. G for publication in proceedings. Vers. 2: Minor revisions; final hadron spectrum calculation include

A critique of astrophysical applications of Hagedorn's bootstrap

It has been shown that Hagedorn's bootstrap should not be applied to hadronic matter at densities large against nuclear densities. The correct predictions of the thermodynamical model do not use any relation between the mass of the fireballs and their size, whereas the astrophysical applications depend on the unreasonable assumption that the size is independent of the mass. The most spectacular prediction of the bootstrap, namely violent black hole explosions yielding 10/sup 15/ g in the last millisecond, is shown to be completely unfounded, even if such an assumption is made. (21 refs)