Quark-Gluon Plasma - New Frontiers

Abstract

As implied by organizers, this talk is not a conference summary but rather an outline of progress/challenges/``frontiers'' of the theory. Some fundamental questions addressed are: Why is sQGP such a good liquid? Do we understand (de)confinement and what do we know about ``magnetic'' objects creating it? Can we understand the AdS/CFT predictions, from the gauge theory side? Can they be tested experimentally? Can AdS/CFT duality help us understand rapid equilibration/entropy production? Can we work out a complete dynamical ``gravity dual'' to heavy ion collisions?

final talk at Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb.2008

References in corpus (15)

• Monopole Condensation, And Confinement In N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
• Viscosity Information from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions: How Perfect is the Fluid Observed at RHIC?
• Collective Flow signals the Quark Gluon Plasma
• Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• Asymptotic perfect fluid dynamics as a consequence of AdS/CFT
• Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter
• Strongly coupled plasma with electric and magnetic charges
• A Gravity Dual of RHIC Collisions
• Magnetic component of Yang-Mills plasma
• Holography of Radiation and Jet Quenching
• How much entropy is produced in strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP) by dissipative effects?
• Toward the AdS/CFT gravity dual for High Energy Collisions: I.Falling into the AdS
• Toward the AdS/CFT Gravity Dual for High Energy Collisions: II. The Stress Tensor on the Boundary
• Finite Temperature Sum Rules in Lattice Gauge Theory

Cited by in corpus (12)

• Di-Jet Conical Correlations Associated with Heavy Quark Jets in anti--de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence
• Quark number susceptibility around the critical end point
• The quark-gluon medium
• Glueballs and statistical mechanics of the gluon plasma
• Static $\bar{Q}Q$ Potentials and the Magnetic Component of QCD Plasma near $T_c$
• Quark Gluon Bags as Reggeons
• Recent results from BRAHMS
• A minimal quasiparticle approach for the QGP and its large-$N_c$ limits
• A study of event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• To understand sQGP through non-topological FL model
• Glueballs, gluon condensate, and pure glue QCD below T_c
• Magnetic Component of Quark-Gluon Plasma