Gauge/string duality, hot QCD and heavy ion collisions / / Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Hong Liu, David Mateos, Krishna Rajagopal, Urs Achim Wiedemann.

• VerfasserIn: Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge,; Liu, Hong (Professor of physics),; López Mateos, David,; Rajagopal, Krishna, 1965-; Wiedemann, Urs Achim,
• TeilnehmendeR: Liu, Hong (Professor of physics),; López Mateos, David,; Rajagopal, Krishna, 1965-; Wiedemann, Urs Achim,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 460 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2014.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.