Thermal transport and drag force in improved holographic QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Gürsoy, Umut ^a   Kiritsis, Elias ^b   Michalogiorgakis, Georgios ^c   Nitti, Francesco ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Gauge gravity correspondence; Hadronic Colliders

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149111983     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/056     Document Type: Article

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