Conformal collider physics: Energy and charge correlations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Hofman, Diego M ^a   Maldacena, Juan ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Jets; Strong coupling expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249101653     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/012     Document Type: Article

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