Jorge Casalderrey-Solana (Universitat de Barcelona), Hong Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Mateos (Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (IC

Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to gauge/string duality and its applications to the study of the thermal and transport properties of quark-gluon plasma, its dynamics and its response to various probes. First published in 2014, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 168mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9781009403528
• ISBN-10: 1009403524
• Artikelnr.: 68319466

Autorenporträt

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona. His research focuses on the properties of QCD matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Opening remarks
2. A heavy ion phenomenology primer
3. Results from lattice QCD at nonzero temperature
4. Introducing the gauge/string duality
5. A duality toolbox
6. Bulk properties of strongly coupled plasma
7. From hydrodynamics for far-from-equilibrium dynamics
8. Probing strongly coupled plasma
9. Quarkonium mesons in strongly coupled plasma
10. Concluding remarks and outlook
Appendixes
References
Index.