  The production of quarks and antiquarks during a sudden restoration of chiral
symmetry, as it might occur in very energetic heavy ion collisions, is
considered. If gluons are already present they can assist additively to the
overall production: real gluons are partially decaying during such a chiral
transition. The total number of produced quarks is calculated and found to be
quite sizeable. It is speculated that such a phenomenon could give rise to a
significant contribution to the overall quark pair creation in the
preequilibrium stage of the heavy ion collision.
