Crash Courses on Theoretical Physics
AdS/QCD and the Quark Gluon Plasma
Umut Gürsoy
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Outline
• Lecture I:
• Heavy ion collisions, observables
• Relation to QFT correlators
• Thermalization, hydrodynamics
• Magnetically induced phenomena
• Lecture II:
• AdS/CFT basics
• Top-down and bottom-up models
• The bulk model: vacuum state, particle spectra
• The bulk model: finite T, thermodynamics
• Lecture III:
• The bulk model: flavor sector
• QGP observables
• Conclusion and Outlook
Place: Feza Gursey seminar room, Physics department, Boğaziçi University
Lectures: 17 and 19 July 2018, 14:00 – 16:00
For details: https://msgsufizik.net/ccGursoy
