Heavy ion collisions and black hole dynamics
Steven S. Gubser
Relativistic heavy ion collisions create a strongly coupled quarkgluon plasma. Some of the plasma's properties can be approximately understood in terms of a dual black hole. These properties include shear viscosity, thermalization time, and drag force on heavy quarks. They are hard to calculate from first principles in QCD. Extracting predictions about quarkgluon plasmas from dual black holes mostly involves solving Einstein's equations and classical string equations of motion. AdS/CFT provides a translation from gravitational calculations to gauge theory predictions. The gauge theory to which the predictions apply is $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-YangMills theory. QCD is different in many respects from super-YangMills, but it seems that its high temperature properties are similar enough for us to make some meaningful comparisons.
International Journal of Modern Physics D
Gaugestring duality
Heavy-ion collisions
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Heavy-ion Collisions Mathematics 100%
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Gubser, S. S. (2008). Heavy ion collisions and black hole dynamics. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 17(3-4), 673-678. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271808012425
Gubser, Steven S. / Heavy ion collisions and black hole dynamics. In: International Journal of Modern Physics D. 2008 ; Vol. 17, No. 3-4. pp. 673-678.
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Gubser SS. Heavy ion collisions and black hole dynamics. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 2008;17(3-4):673-678. doi: 10.1142/s0218271808012425