Theoretical overview: towards understanding the quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

I give a brief overview of recent theoretical developments concerning the high temperature phase of QCD, and the structure of hadronic wave functions at high energy.

10 pages. Plenary talk at the 19th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2006) held in Shanghai, China on November 14-20, 2006

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• Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions
• Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration
• Quark Gluon Plasma an Color Glass Condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment
• The PHOBOS Perspective on Discoveries at RHIC
• Exact evolution equation for the effective potential
• Computing Quark and Gluon Distribution Functions for Very Large Nuclei
• Operator expansion for high-energy scattering
• Non-Perturbative Renormalization Flow in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics
• Gluon Distribution Functions for Very Large Nuclei at Small Transverse Momentum
• Nonlinear Gluon Evolution in the Color Glass Condensate: I
• Saturation Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering at low $Q^2$ and its Implications on Diffraction
• New Forms of QCD Matter Discovered at RHIC
• The Exact Renormalisation Group and Approximate Solutions
• Thermodynamics of SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory
• The Wilson renormalization group for low x physics: towards the high density regime
• Green's Functions in the Color Field of a Large Nucleus
• The BFKL Equation from the Wilson Renormalization Group
• Nonlinear Gluon Evolution in the Color Glass Condensate: II
• Phases of QCD: lattice thermodynamics and a field theoretical model
• Unitarization of the BFKL Pomeron on a Nucleus
• The Renormalization Group Equation for the Color Glass Condensate
• Saturation in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering
• What RHIC Experiments and Theory tell us about Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma ?
• The Effect of Shear Viscosity on Spectra, Elliptic Flow, and HBT Radii
• Unitarity at small Bjorken x
• Bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions
• The Quark-Gluon Plasma: Collective Dynamics and Hard Thermal Loops
• Why does the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC behave as a nearly ideal fluid ?
• $J/\psi$ and ${\eta }_c$ in the Deconfined Plasma from Lattice QCD
• Exact Renormalization Group Equations. An Introductory Review
• Non-Abelian Weizsacker-Williams field and a two-dimensional effective color charge density for a very large nucleus
• The pressure of hot QCD up to g^6 ln(1/g)
• Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• Free Energy of QCD at High Temperature
• Unitarization of Gluon Distribution in the Doubly Logarithmic Regime at High Density
• Evolution of the nuclear modification factors with rapidity and centrality in d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV
• Geometric Scaling above the Saturation Scale
• Critical Exponents from the Effective Average Action
• Quark-Gluon Plasma as a Condensate of Z(3) Wilson Lines
• Approximately self-consistent resummations for the thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma. I. Entropy and density
• Geometric scaling as traveling waves
• Derivative Expansion of the Exact Renormalization Group
• Towards a Theory of Binary Bound States in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Parton Saturation at Small x and in Large Nuclei
• Hadronic fluctuations at the QCD phase transition
• The Three-Loop Free Energy for High-Temperature QED and QCD with Fermions
• The Free Energy of Hot Gauge Theories with Fermions Through g^5
• The Unstable Glasma
• Screened Perturbation Theory
• Hard-thermal-loop Resummation of the Free Energy of a Hot Gluon Plasma
• The entropy of the QCD plasma
• Nuclear Modification Factor in d+Au Collisions: Onset of Suppression in the Color Glass Condensate
• A ZEUS next-to-leading-order QCD analysis of data on deep inelastic scattering
• Two-loop QCD gauge coupling at high temperatures
• Universal behavior of QCD amplitudes at high energy from general tools of statistical physics
• HTL Perturbation Theory to Two Loops
• A Langevin equation for high energy evolution with pomeron loops
• Equation of state for pure SU(3) gauge theory with renormalization group improved action
• Extension of the JIMWLK Equation in the Low Gluon Density Region
• How to resum long-distance contributions to the QCD pressure?
• The turbulent spectrum created by non-Abelian plasma instabilities
• Screened Perturbation Theory to Three Loops
• Fluctuations, strangeness and quasi-quarks in heavy-ion collisions from lattice QCD
• Ultraviolet avalanche in anisotropic non-Abelian plasmas
• Perturbation theory and non-perturbative renormalization flow in scalar field theory at finite temperature
• Z(3)-symmetric effective theory for SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at high temperature
• On Kolmogorov Wave Turbulence in QCD
• The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization
• The speed of sound and specific heat in the QCD plasma: hydrodynamics, fluctuations and conformal symmetry
• Asymptotic thermal quark masses and the entropy of QCD in the large-N_f limit
• Forward gluon production in hadron-hadron scattering with Pomeron loops
• A Modified "Bottom-up" Thermalization in Heavy Ion Collisions

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• Small Shear Viscosity of a Quark-Gluon Plasma Implies Strong Jet Quenching
• The strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma, and the critical behaviour of QCD at imaginary chemical potential
• Mass Shift and Width Broadening of J/psi in hot gluonic plasma from QCD Sum Rules
• Critical behavior of charmonia across the phase transition: A QCD sum rule approach
• Fluctuations and Correlations of Conserved Charges in QCD at Finite Temperature with Effective Models
• Fluctuations and Correlations of Conserved Charges near the QCD Critical Point
• Shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of a relativistic Hagedorn resonance gas
• Thermodynamics of 2+1 Flavor Polyakov-Loop Quark-Meson Model under External Magnetic Field
• Manifestations of magnetic vortices in equation of state of Yang-Mills plasma
• Jet quenching and direct photon production
• Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equation in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model
• Constraining the Hadron-Quark Phase Transition Chemical Potential via Astronomical Observation