Speaker
Derek Teaney
(Stony Brook University)
Description
I review the application of the AdS/CFT correspondence to heavy ion
collisions. The talk will first review and critique available
holographic calculations of energy loss, with an emphasis on the
parametric similarities and differences between perturbation theory
and the strongly coupled theory. Then the talk will summarize the
results of current AdS/CFT motivated energy loss models and their
domain of applicability. In addition, several other results from the
AdS/CFT correspondence of relevance to heavy ion collisions will be
discussed. For example, recent results on the (strikingly fast)
thermalization of holographic plasmas will be reviewed.
Primary author
Derek Teaney
(Stony Brook University)
