16 August 2010 to 10 September 2010
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Conformal viscous hydrodynamics and finite temperature gauge/gravity duality

18 Aug 2010, 10:30
1h
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Speaker

Prof. Rudolf Baier (Bielefeld University)

Description

Relativistic second-order viscous hydrodynamics at finite temperature is discussed. Using the Weyl-covariant formalism the constraints by conformal invariance are derived. The transport coefficients, e.g. shear viscosity etc., as a function of temperature are obtained from the strongly coupled N=4 SUSY theory applying the AdS/CFT correspondence. Recent results from a comparison with RHIC experimental data are quoted.

Primary author

Prof. Rudolf Baier (Bielefeld University)

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