東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

String theory and relativistic heavy...

Friess, Joshua J.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions./
Author:	Friess, Joshua J.
Description:	131 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Steven S. Gubser.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-01B.
Subject:	Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3250032

String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Friess, Joshua J.

String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions. - 131 p.

Adviser: Steven S. Gubser.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2007.

It has long been known that string theory describes not only quantum gravity, but also gauge theories with a high degree of supersymmetry. Said gauge theories also have a large number of colors in a regime with a large effective coupling constant that does not depend on energy scale. Supersymmetry is broken in nature, if it is present at all, however the gauge theory described by string theory shares many common features with QCD at temperatures above the quark deconfinement transition. It is generally though not entirely accepted that collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) produce a thermalized Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at temperatures distinctly above the transition temperature as determined from lattice simulations. Hence, we might hope that a string theoretic description of gauge dynamics can elucidate some otherwise intractable physics of the strongly coupled plasma.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019488
Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy.

String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions.
LDR:02633nam 2200265 a 45 001 954203
005 20110621
008 110622s2007 eng d
035 $a (UMI)AAI3250032
035 $a AAI3250032
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Friess, Joshua J. $3 1277676
245 1 0 $a String theory and relativistic heavy ion collisions.
300 $a 131 p.
500 $a Adviser: Steven S. Gubser.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-01, Section: B, page: 0355.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2007.
520 $a It has long been known that string theory describes not only quantum gravity, but also gauge theories with a high degree of supersymmetry. Said gauge theories also have a large number of colors in a regime with a large effective coupling constant that does not depend on energy scale. Supersymmetry is broken in nature, if it is present at all, however the gauge theory described by string theory shares many common features with QCD at temperatures above the quark deconfinement transition. It is generally though not entirely accepted that collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) produce a thermalized Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) at temperatures distinctly above the transition temperature as determined from lattice simulations. Hence, we might hope that a string theoretic description of gauge dynamics can elucidate some otherwise intractable physics of the strongly coupled plasma.
520 $a Here we use string theory to calculate the outgoing energy flux from a RHIC process called "jet quenching", in which a high-momentum quark or gluon traverses a large distance in the QGP. Our setup is in the context of the highly supersymmetric string dual gauge theory, but we nevertheless find that the gross features of the resulting stress-energy tensor match reasonably well with experimental data. We will furthermore discuss the technology behind computations of the leading-order corrections to gauge theory observables that are uniquely string-induced, and we will describe a potential solution to string theory that could resolve a number of discrepancies between the traditional highly supersymmetric setup and QCD---in particular, a significant reduction in the amount of supersymmetry, and a finite effective coupling that is still greater than unity but does depend on energy scale.
590 $a School code: 0181.
650 4 $a Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy. $3 1019488
690 $a 0798
710 2 $a Princeton University. $3 645579
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 68-01B.
790 $a 0181
790 1 0 $a Gubser, Steven S., $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2007
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3250032