Introduction to String Theory and Gauge/Gravity duality for students in QCD and QGP phenomenology
Robi Peschanski
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37 pages, 10 figures, Presented at the School on QCD, Low-x Physics and Diffraction,Copanello, Calabria, Italy, July 2007.To be published by Acat Physica Polonica
String theory has been initially derived from motivations coming from strong interaction phenomenology,but its application faced deep conceptual and practical difficulties. The strong interactions found their theoretical foundation elsewhere, namely on QCD, the quantum gauge field theory of quarks and gluons. Recently, the Gauge/Gravity correspondence allowed to initiate a reformulation of the connection between strings and gauge field theories, avoiding some of the initial drawbacks and opening the way to new insights on the gauge theory at strong coupling and eventually QCD. Among others, the recent applications of the Gauge/Gravity correspondence to the formation of the QGP, the quark-gluon plasma, in heavy-ion reactions seem to provide a physically interesting insight on phenomenological features of the reactions. In these lectures we will give a simplified introduction to those aspects of string theory which, at the origin and in the recent developments, are connected to strong interactions, for those students which are starting to learn QCD and QGP physics from an experimental or phenomenological point of view.
Dynamical correlations across momentum scales in the quark-gluon plasma
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory（劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室核科学部）；Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校物理系）
Perturbative and nonperturbative properties of heavy quark transport in a thermal SU(3) gluon plasma
College of Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering, China Three Gorges University（三峡大学核科学与技术学院）；Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences, China Three Gorges University（三峡大学天文与空间科学中心）；School of Physics and Mechanical Electrical and Engineering, Hubei University of Education（湖北教育学院物理与机电工程学院）
