Model studies of equilibration using the AdS/CFT correspondence have lead to a number of insights concerning relativistic hydrodynamics; their validity extends well beyond the specific case of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. I will summarise these and assess their impact from the perspective of the physics of quark-gluon plasma.
The effect of intrinsic fluctuations of the proton saturation momentum scale on event-by-event rapidity distributions is discussed. Saturation scale fluctuations generate an asymmetry in the single particle rapidity distribution in each event resulting in genuine $n$-particle correlations having a component linear in the rapidities of the produced particles, $y_1 \cdots y_n$. We introduce a...
Using a bottom-up gauge gravity constructions, relaxation rates of strongly coupled field theories are computed.A variety of phase structures are considered, from a crossover up to a first order phase transition. It is established that near the transition the applicability of a hydrodynamic description breaks down at lower momenta than in the conformal case. In the case of the first order...
Viewing a heavy baryon as a system consisting of the $N_c-1$ light quarks that induce the pion mean field, and a heavy quark as a static color source under the influence of this mean field, we derive a number of model independent relations and calculate the heavy baryon masses using using as an input light baryon properties. The results are in remarkable agreement with the experimental data....
