Published October 12, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

sQGP as hCFT

  • 1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 (Canada)
  • 2. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5 (Canada)
  • 3. Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Krakow (Poland)

Description

We examine the proposal to make quantitative comparisons between the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma and holographic descriptions of conformal field theory. In this Letter, we calculate corrections to certain transport coefficients appearing in second-order hydrodynamics from higher curvature terms to the dual gravity theory. We also clarify how these results might be consistently applied in comparisons with the sQGP.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.030

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.030;
arXiv
arXiv:0908.2802v1;
PII
S0370-2693(09)01099-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
680
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 521-525
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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