Toward thermalization in heavy ion collisions at strong coupling

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kovchegova, Yuri V ^a   Linb, Shu ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Nonperturbative effects; QCD; Strong coupling expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954947813     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)057     Document Type: Article

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