Heavy ions theory review

Abstract

Some of the new developments in the theory of heavy ion collisions are reviewed. Much of the last progress have been triggered by the high energies available at RHIC. In the near future, the LHC will extend the energy reach in heavy ions by a factor thirty and give access to new QCD regimes characterized by large densities and temperatures and corresponding modified evolution equations.

Plenary talk at the Conference Physics at LHC, Cracow (Poland) July 2006. 12 pages

References in corpus (2)

• Heavy Quark Diffusion in Strongly Coupled $\mathbb{N}=4$ Yang Mills
• The stress tensor of a quark moving through N=4 thermal plasma