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quark-gluon plasma

Idea

A quark-gluon plasma is a certain phase of QCD which is a plasma? of quarks and gluons.

References

General

• Wikipedia, Quark-Gluon plasma

Description via AdS/CFT

Description via AdS/CFT (see at string theory results applied elsewhere):

Expositions and reviews include

• Pavel Kovtun, Quark-Gluon Plasma and String Theory, RHIC news (2009) (blog entry)

• Makoto Natsuume, String theory and quark-gluon plasma (arXiv:hep-ph/0701201)

• Steven Gubser, Using string theory to study the quark-gluon plasma: progress and perils (arXiv:0907.4808)

Orinal articles include:

• Hovhannes R. Grigoryan, Paul M. Hohler, Mikhail A. Stephanov, Towards the Gravity Dual of Quarkonium in the Strongly Coupled QCD Plasma (arXiv:1003.1138)

• Brett McInnes, Holography of the Quark Matter Triple Point (arXiv:0910.4456)