Applications of AdS/CFT in Quark Gluon Plasma

Atmaja, A.N. (2010)

Doctoral Thesis

As one of the most important developments in string theory, the AdS/CFT correspondence(or in general gauge/gravity correspondence) encodes a way of using string theory to perform non-perturbative calculation in gauge theory which is still a complicated problem. It was firstly formulated as the correspondence between weakly coupled gravity theory with AdS (Anti de Sitter) space-time background and strongly coupled gauge theory with conformal symmetry in one lower dimension. One application of AdS/CFT is to compute some of observables of sQGP such as photon and dilepton production rates, mean-free path time of the plasma constituents, and anisotropic drag force effect to the elliptic flow.

• AdS/CFT
• Quark Gluon Plasma
• String Theory

• All authors: Atmaja, A.N.
• Supervisor: Boer, J. de
• Co-supervisor: Schalm, K.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Science, Leiden University
• Date: 2010-10-26
• Title of host publication: Casimir PhD Series
• ISBN (print): 9789085930884
• Name: 2010-28