Abstract
We compute the gravitational quasinormal modes of the global AdS 5-Schwarzschild solution. We show how to use the holographic dual of these modes to describe a thermal plasma of finite extent expanding in a slightly anisotropic fashion. We compare these flows with the behavior of quark-gluon plasmas produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions by estimating the elliptic flow coefficient and the thermalization time.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 080 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2007 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Apr 1 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Keywords
- AdS-CFT correspondence
- Black holes in string theory
- QCD
- Supersymmetric gauge theory