School's Weekly Seminar

Heavy ion collisions from holography

by Dr Wilke van der Schee (MIT)

→ Asia/Tehran
Seminar Room (Larak)

Seminar Room

Larak

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Larak Garden, Artesh Hwy, Tehran, Iran
Description

This talk will give an overview of recent attempts to use holography to understand the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions. For this I will argue that the AdS/CFT duality may improve our understanding of some aspects of these collisions, in particular focusing on the longitudinal dynamics. This may provide a distinctive way to probe the results from these strong coupled methods. In the end I will show some results allowing to make a direct comparison with experimental data.