Thermal approach to RHIC
  Applications of a simple thermal model to ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are presented. We compute abundances of various hadrons, including particles with strange quarks, the pT-spectra, and the HBT radii for the pion. Surprising agreement is found, showing that the thermal approach can be used successfully to understand and describe the RHIC data. 
Wojciech Broniowski, Anna Baran, and Wojciech Florkowski (INP, Cracow)