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

Lunch

Hadronization 1

1 Statistical Hadronization: A thermodynamical scenario

Speaker: Francesco Becattini

Slides becattini.pdf.pdf

2 Data testing Hadronization Models: Which data should be reproduced

Speaker: Klaus Hamacher

Slides Hamacher.pdf.pdf

Coffee break

Heavy Ions I

3 Heavy Ion collisions at LHC: Wishes, prospects & reality

Speaker: Karel Safarik

Slides DurhamLHCphysics.ppt

Dinner

Thursday, 16 April

Hadronization II

4 Old Ideas in Hadronization: The Lund string

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand

Slides sjostrand.pdf

5 Hadronization in cold QCD matter: Data vs. phenomenology

Speaker: Alberto Accardi

Slides Accardi-Durham.pdf

Lunch

Heavy Ions II

6 Hard probes for a strongly coupled QCD plasma from AdS/CFT

Speaker: Edmond Iancu

Slides Iancu.pdf

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

Speaker: William Zajc

Slides ZajcDurham.pptx

Coffee break

Heavy Ions III

8 Theory of Jet quenching: A phenomenological overview

Speaker: Jorge Casalderrey-Solana

Slides JQT.pdf

9 A Monte Carlo model for jet quenching

Speaker: Korinna Zapp

Slides hadro-kczapp.pdf.pdf

Friday, 17 April

Heavy Ions IV

10 Holographic recipes for Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

Speaker: Andrei Starinets

Slides durham_hadron_2009.ppt

Lunch