Parton saturation at strong coupling from AdS/CFT

Abstract

I describe the parton picture at strong coupling emerging from the gauge/gravity duality, with emphasis on the universality of the phenomenon of parton saturation. I discuss several consequences of this picture for the phenomenology of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, which are potentially relevant for heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.

16 pages, invited talk at the Workshop on Saturation, the Color Glass Condensate and Glasma, May 10-12 2010, Brookhaven, USA, to appear in Nuclear Physics A

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