PIRSA:09110000

Holography & Heavy-Ion Collisions

Romatschke, P. (2009). Holography & Heavy-Ion Collisions. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09110000

Romatschke, Paul. Holography & Heavy-Ion Collisions. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 03, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09110000 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09110000,
            doi = {10.48660/09110000},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09110000},
            author = {Romatschke, Paul},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Holography \& Heavy-Ion Collisions},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:09110000 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Paul Romatschke University of Colorado Boulder

DOI 10.48660/09110000
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are one of the most difficult problems for theoretical physicists: they probe non-abelian dynamics deep in the non-perturbative (strong coupling) regime in a many-body system, are highly dynamical (strong gradients), exhibit collective behavior, and involve phase transitions. Fluid dynamics with input from holography is surprisingly good at describing some aspects of experimental data in heavy-ion collisions. I will review some of this successful description, its limitations, and point out open problems that one may be able to understand using gauge/gravity duality.