Large N field theories, string theory and gravity

O Aharony, SS Gubser, J Maldacena, H Ooguri, Y Oz - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory,
focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter …

QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

The PHOBOS perspective on discoveries at RHIC

BB Back, MD Baker, M Ballintijn, DS Barton, B Becker… - Nuclear Physics A, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper describes the conclusions that can be drawn from the data taken thus far with the
PHOBOS detector at RHIC. In the most central Au+ Au collisions at the highest beam energy …

Strongly interacting matter exhibits deconfined behavior in massive neutron stars

E Annala, T Gorda, J Hirvonen, O Komoltsev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities in our Universe. This highly
compressed matter may undergo a phase transition where nuclear matter melts into …

Shear Viscosity of Strongly Coupled Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma

G Policastro, DT Son, AO Starinets - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
Using the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, we relate the shear viscosity
η of the finite-temperature N= 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the large N, strong …

[BOOK][B] Gauge/string duality, hot QCD and heavy ion collisions

J Casalderrey-Solana, H Liu, D Mateos, K Rajagopal… - 2014 - library.oapen.org
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 …

Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: Recipe and applications

DT Son, AO Starinets - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We formulate a prescription for computing Minkowski-space correlators from AdS/CFT
correspondence. This prescription is shown to give the correct retarded propagators at zero …

New theories of relativistic hydrodynamics in the LHC era

W Florkowski, MP Heller… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The success of relativistic hydrodynamics as an essential part of the phenomenological
description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC has motivated a significant body of …

Effect of shear viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and Hanbury Brown–Twiss radii

D Teaney - Physical Review C, 2003 - APS
Here we calculate the first correction to the thermal distribution function of an expanding gas
due to shear viscosity. With this modified distribution function we estimate viscous …

What RHIC experiments and theory tell us about properties of quark–gluon plasma?

E Shuryak - Nuclear Physics A, 2005 - Elsevier
This brief review summarizes the main experimental discoveries made at RHIC and then
discusses their implications. The robust collective flow phenomena are well described by …