New ideas in hadronization: Intersections between QCD, AdS/CFT and the QGP

15 Apr 2009, 12:00 → 17 Apr 2009, 14:00 Europe/London

OC218 (IPPP, Durham)

Hadronization and the thermal properties of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) remain challenges to our undestanding of QCD. There have been recent advances in the theoretical understanding of strongly coupled gauge theories using string theory techniques. In addition experimental progress has come from RHIC, and the LHC programme promises much to come. The workshop aims to bring together these diverse communities and seek deeper understanding of the non-perturbative QCD physics of jets and the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Talks will centre on current models of hadronization and their confrontation with experiment, our present understanding of the QGP and AdS/QCD methods for these processes.

Wednesday, 15 April

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Hadronization 1

14:00 Statistical Hadronization: A thermodynamical scenario

Speaker: Francesco Becattini

Slides becattini.pdf.pdf

15:00 Data testing Hadronization Models: Which data should be reproduced

Speaker: Klaus Hamacher

Slides Hamacher.pdf.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Heavy Ions I

16:30 Heavy Ion collisions at LHC: Wishes, prospects & reality

Speaker: Karel Safarik

Slides DurhamLHCphysics.ppt

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Thursday, 16 April

10:00 → 12:00 Hadronization II

10:00 Old Ideas in Hadronization: The Lund string

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand

Slides sjostrand.pdf

11:00 Hadronization in cold QCD matter: Data vs. phenomenology

Speaker: Alberto Accardi

Slides Accardi-Durham.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Heavy Ions II

14:00 Hard probes for a strongly coupled QCD plasma from AdS/CFT

Speaker: Edmond Iancu

Slides Iancu.pdf

15:00 RHIC data meet theory: What did work, what did not, what should work

Speaker: William Zajc

Slides ZajcDurham.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Heavy Ions III

16:30 Theory of Jet quenching: A phenomenological overview

Speaker: Jorge Casalderrey-Solana

Slides JQT.pdf

17:30 A Monte Carlo model for jet quenching

Speaker: Korinna Zapp

Slides hadro-kczapp.pdf.pdf

Friday, 17 April

10:00 → 12:00 Heavy Ions IV

10:00 Holographic recipes for Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Andrei Starinets

Slides durham_hadron_2009.ppt

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch