Heavy ion collisions with transverse dynamics from evolving AdS geometries

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Taliotis, Anastasios ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649712086     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)102     Document Type: Article

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