Weakly and strongly coupled degrees of freedom in the quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

In this talk, I reflect on the physical origin of the strongly coupled character of the quark-gluon plasma.

Talk presented at the workshop "Excited QCD 2011", Les Houches, France, Feb. 20-25, 2011. 6 pages v2: reference added

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