Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana author Hong Liu author David Mateos author Krishna Rajagopal author Urs Achim Wiedemann author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Jun '14

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Introduction to gauge/string duality and its applications to quark-gluon plasma for researchers in string theory and quantum field theory.

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. It is an ideal reference for students and researchers in string theory, quantum field theory, quantum many-body physics, heavy ion physics and lattice QCD.Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the microseconds-old universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made of particles. String theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying matter with such properties. 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, the dynamics of how it forms, the hydrodynamics of how it flows, and its response to probes including jets and quarkonium mesons. Calculations are discussed in the context of data from RHIC and LHC and results from finite temperature lattice QCD. The book is an ideal reference for students and researchers in string theory, quantum field theory, quantum many-body physics, heavy ion physics and lattice QCD.

'… for its clarity, topicality, and authority, this volume … certainly is the book that every mathematical physicist should wish to have read about the subject.' Johannes Walcher, Zentralblatt MATH

ISBN: 9781107022461

Dimensions: 253mm x 178mm x 23mm

Weight: 1090g

465 pages