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AdS/CFT for the early stages of heavy ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

I give a brief introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence targeted at heavy-ion physicists. I also review some insights to our understanding of the early stages of heavy-ion collisions coming from selected studies made using methods of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.1409.7571,
  title  = {AdS/CFT for the early stages of heavy ion collisions},
  author = {Romuald A. Janik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7571},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures. Plenary talk at the Quark Matter 2014 conference