Dynamical aspects of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma

• Grant number: 14/22822-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Jorge José Leite Noronha Junior
• Grantee: Jorge José Leite Noronha Junior
• Host Investigator: Miklos Gyulassy
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Columbia University in the City of New York, United States
• Associated research grant: 12/50984-4 - Hadron Physics, AP.TEM

Abstract

In this 1-year project to be performed at Columbia University in New York, I will use the gauge/gravity duality to study the real time dynamical properties of strongly coupled non-Abelian plasmas such as the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions.