Robustness and infrared sensitivity of various observables in the application of AdS/CFT to heavy ion collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Hong ^a   Rajagopal, Krishna ^a   Shi, Yeming ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauge gravity correspondence; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749154715     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/048     Document Type: Article

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