String Interactions as a Source of Collective Behaviour

Abstract

The discovery of collective effects in small collision systems has spurred a renewed interest in hadronization models, and is also a source for collective effects all the way to large collision systems, where they are usually ascribed to the creation of a Quark–Gluon Plasma. In this topical mini-review, the microscopic model for string interactions, based on the Lund string hadronization model, developed with exactly this aim in mind is reviewed, and some prospects for the future are presented.

Keywords

• hadronization
• QCD phenomenology
• Quark–Gluon Plasma
• Monte Carlo event generators