Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions

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

doi:10.1017/9781009403504

Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent 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, 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. This is an ideal reference for students and researchers in string theory, quantum field theory, quantum many-body physics, heavy ion physics and lattice QCD. This title from 2014 has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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1 - Opening remarks
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2 - A heavy ion phenomenology primer
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3 - Results from lattice QCD at nonzero temperature
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4 - Introducing the gauge/string duality
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5 - A duality toolbox
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6 - Bulk properties of strongly coupled plasma
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7 - From hydrodynamics to far-from-equilibrium dynamics
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8 - Probing strongly coupled plasma
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9 - Quarkonium mesons in strongly coupled plasma
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10 - Concluding remarks and outlook
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Appendix A - Green–Kubo formula for transport coefficients
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Appendix B - Hawking temperature of a general black brane metric
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Appendix C - Holographic renormalization, one-point functions, and a two-point function
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Appendix D - Computation of the holographic stress tensor
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

1 - Opening remarks
pp 1-3

2 - A heavy ion phenomenology primer
pp 4-64

3 - Results from lattice QCD at nonzero temperature
pp 65-91

4 - Introducing the gauge/string duality
pp 92-110

5 - A duality toolbox
pp 111-149

6 - Bulk properties of strongly coupled plasma
pp 150-193

7 - From hydrodynamics to far-from-equilibrium dynamics
pp 194-260

8 - Probing strongly coupled plasma
pp 261-346

9 - Quarkonium mesons in strongly coupled plasma
pp 347-397

10 - Concluding remarks and outlook
pp 398-402

Appendix A - Green–Kubo formula for transport coefficients
pp 403-404

Appendix B - Hawking temperature of a general black brane metric
pp 405-405

Appendix C - Holographic renormalization, one-point functions, and a two-point function
pp 406-409

Appendix D - Computation of the holographic stress tensor
pp 410-413

Bibliography
pp 414-457

Index
pp 458-460

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