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AdS/CFT for the early stages of heavy ion collisions
I give a brief introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence targeted at
heavy-ion physicists. I also review some insights to our understanding of the
early stages of heavy-ion collisions coming from selected studies made using
methods of the AdS/CFT correspondence.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Plenary talk at the Quark Matter 2014 conferenc
QCD, diffraction and string theory
Recently, string theory on some specific curved backgroud spacetime
geometries has been conjectured to be equivalent to certain gauge theories
(AdS/CFT correspondence). This correspondence may be used to investigate the
non-perturbative regime of gauge theories. I describe its application to the
study of soft scattering amplitudes in a confining gauge theory. I describe two
qualitatively different applications: amplitudes with vacuum quantum number
exchange (Pomeron-like), amplitudes with Reggeon exchange. The last case
requires going beyond eikonal approximation on the gauge theory side.Comment: 5 pages. Presented at the 10th International Workshop on Deep
Inelastic Scattering, DIS2002, Krakow, Polan
The Lund Model at Nonzero Impact Parameter
We extend the formulation of the longitudinal 1+1 dimensional Lund model to
nonzero impact parameter using the minimal area assumption. Complete formulae
for the string breaking probability and the momenta of the produced mesons are
derived using the string worldsheet Minkowskian helicoid geometry. For strings
stretched into the transverse dimension, we find probability distribution with
slope linear in m_T similar to the statistical models but without any
thermalization assumptions.Comment: 12 pages, 2 .eps figures, footnotes added, results unchanged, version
to be published in Phys.Lett.
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