Improved Holographic QCD and the Quark-gluon Plasma

Abstract

We review construction of the improved holographic models for QCD-like confining gauge theories and their applications to the physics of the Quark-gluon plasma. We also review recent progress in this area of research. The lecture notes start from the vacuum structure of these theories, then develop thermodynamic and hydrodynamic observables and end with more advanced topics such as the holographic QCD in the presence of external magnetic fields. This is a summary of the lectures presented at the 56th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics in Spring 2016 at Zakopane, Poland.

arXiv comment81 pages, 25 figures

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Holographic modeling of nuclear matter and neutron stars
• On the interplay between magnetic field and anisotropy in holographic QCD
• Zooming in on AdS${}_3$/CFT${}_2$ near a BPS Bound
• The QCD Trace Anomaly at Strong Coupling from M-Theory
• Diagrammatic Monte-Carlo for weak-coupling expansion of non-Abelian lattice field theories: large-N U(N)xU(N) principal chiral model
• Properties of the Free Energy Density Using the Principle of Maximum Conformality