The flux-tube model of particle creation in nuclear collisions

Abstract

I review some of the history of the flux-tube model, concentrating on work done by the Los Alamos-Tel Aviv collaboration on particle creation and back-reaction in uniform fields and in the central rapidity region. I discuss the incorporation of more realistic geometry and structure of the flux tube via application of the dual superconductor model of confinement.

Comments: Invited talk at Nuclear Matter, Hot and Cold: a Symposium in Memory of Judah M. Eisenberg, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 14--16, 1999. 8 pages, 2 EPS figures