2008/04/15 by R. C. Myers, R C Myers, S. E. Vazquez +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #General relativity #Gravitation #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Superstring theory #Theory of relativity #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114008
published as Class.Quant.Grav.25:114008,2008 · This article provides an informal summary of a talk given by RCM at the 18th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in July 2007
arxiv created 2008/04/15 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In recent years, experiments have discovered an exotic new state of matter known as the strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma (sQGP). At present, it seems that standard theoretical tools, such as perturbation theory and lattice gauge theory, are poorly suited to understand this new phase. However, recent progress in superstring theory has provided us with a theoretical laboratory for studying very similar systems of strongly interacting hot non-Abelian plasmas. This surprising new perspective extracts the fluid properties of the sQGP from physical processes in a black hole spacetime. Hence we may find the answers to difficult particle physics questions about the sQGP from straightforward calculations in classical general relativity.