QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Perturbative thermal QCD: formalism and applications

J Ghiglieri, A Kurkela, M Strickland, A Vuorinen - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss the current status and future prospects of perturbation
theory as a means of studying the equilibrium thermodynamic and near-equilibrium …

A holographic model for QCD in the Veneziano limit at finite temperature and density

T Alho, M Järvinen, K Kajantie, E Kiritsis… - Journal of High Energy …, 2014 - Springer
A bstract A holographic model of QCD in the limit of large number of colors, N c, and
massless fermion flavors, N f, but constant ratio xf= N f/N c is analyzed at finite temperature …

Massive holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit

M Järvinen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract QCD at finite, flavor independent quark mass is analyzed by using bottom-up
holography in the Veneziano limit, where the backreaction of quarks to the gluon dynamics …

Phase structures emerging from holography with Einstein-gravity-dilaton models at finite temperature

R Zöllner, B Kämpfer - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2020 - epjplus.epj.org
Abstract Asymptotic AdS Riemann space-times in five dimensions with a black brane
(horizon) sourced by a fully back-reacted scalar field (dilaton) offer—via the holographic …

Quasinormal modes and thermalization in improved holographic QCD

T Alho, J Remes, K Tuominen, A Vuorinen - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Following a series of similar calculations in simpler nonconformal holographic setups, we
determine the quasinormal mode spectrum for an operator dual to a gauge-invariant scalar …

The shear channel spectral function in hot Yang-Mills theory

Y Zhu, A Vuorinen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We determine a next-to-leading order result for the shear channel thermal spectral
function in SU (N) Yang-Mills theory, working in the limit of vanishing external three …

Thermal spectrum of pseudo-scalar glueballs and Debye screening mass from holography

NRF Braga, LF Ferreira - The European Physical Journal C, 2017 - Springer
The finite temperature spectrum of pseudo-scalar glueballs in a plasma is studied using a
holographic model. The 0^-+ 0-+ glueball is represented by a pseudo-scalar (axion) field …

OPE of the energy-momentum tensor correlator and the gluon condensate operator in massless QCD to three-loop order

MF Zoller - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
JHEP10(2014)169 Page 1 JHEP10(2014)169 Published for SISSA by Springer Received:
September 1, 2014 Accepted: October 14, 2014 Published: October 29, 2014 OPE of the …

On the infrared behavior of the shear spectral function in hot Yang-Mills theory

A Vuorinen, Y Zhu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We revisit the determination of the two-loop spectral function in the shear channel
of hot Yang-Mills theory. Correcting a technical error in an earlier computation is seen to …