PIRSA:12100076

Towards an Asymptotically AdS Description of Heavy Ion Collisions

Bantilan, H. (2012). Towards an Asymptotically AdS Description of Heavy Ion Collisions. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/12100076

Bantilan, Hans. Towards an Asymptotically AdS Description of Heavy Ion Collisions. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 18, 2012, https://pirsa.org/12100076 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:12100076,
            doi = {10.48660/12100076},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/12100076},
            author = {Bantilan, Hans},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Towards an Asymptotically AdS Description of Heavy Ion Collisions},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2012},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:12100076 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Hans Bantilan Princeton University

DOI 10.48660/12100076
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I will discuss recent work in simulating asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, and its relation to heavy ion collider physics. For this purpose, I intend to focus on a class of oblately deformed black hole spacetime solutions. For each of these solutions, I will map the gravitational metric in the spacetime bulk to a stress tensor one-point function of the conformal field theory defined on the spacetime boundary. During the ring-down process, wherein the deformed black hole settles down to the AdS analog of the Schwarzschild solution, I will exhibit evidence that the dual CFT stress tensor on the boundary is that of an N=4 SYM fluid, even for black holes of significant deformation well outside the perturbative regime. We will conformally map the boundary fluid onto a real-world fluid in Minkowski space, and discover a temperature profile which can be thought of as approximating that of a head-on heavy ion collision at its moment of impact. I will close with a description of recent parallel explorations.