Wilson loops in heavy ion collisions and their calculation in AdS/CFT

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Hong ^a   Rajagopal, Krishna ^a   Wiedemann, Urs Achim ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947619063     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/066     Document Type: Article

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