String-inspired holography for hot and dense QCD

by Prof. Niko Jokela (Helsinki University)

Tuesday 10 Mar 2026, 13:45 → 14:45 Europe/Rome

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I will discuss some ideas developed over the past years on how string-inspired holography can make contact with real-world QCD, both at high temperature and high baryon density. Suitably engineered holographic models can capture many qualitative and even semi-quantitative features of strongly coupled QCD. I will briefly review how such models can be used to study the quark-gluon plasma, the QCD phase diagram, and dense matter relevant for neutron stars.