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    Introduction To String Theory & Ads/Cft: Justin Frantz Nuclear Lunch 09/09/09

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    String theory has evolved into a set of theories and techniques, including AdS/CFT. AdS/CFT relates a quantum field theory on the boundary of anti-de Sitter space to the theory in the bulk. This allows calculations in strongly coupled field theories that are difficult ordinarily to be recast as geometric problems in higher dimensions. AdS/CFT has provided insights into quantum chromodynamics and yielded predictions for phenomena like quark energy loss that can be tested experimentally.

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    String theory has evolved into a set of theories and techniques, including AdS/CFT. AdS/CFT relates a quantum field theory on the boundary of anti-de Sitter space to the theory in the bulk. This allows calculations in strongly coupled field theories that are difficult ordinarily to be recast as geometric problems in higher dimensions. AdS/CFT has provided insights into quantum chromodynamics and yielded predictions for phenomena like quark energy loss that can be tested experimentally.

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    Introduction to String Theory &

    AdS/CFT
    From a non-expert!!!!

    Justin Frantz
    Nuclear Lunch 09/09/09
    Introduction
    String Theory is not just one theory but has
    evolved into a both a set of theories set of
    techniques
    AdS/CFT is one such sub-theory/technique
    that has recently found an application to
    Physics of the Strong Force
    This week: start w/ general intro to String
    Theory
    Next week discuss AdS/CFT again in more detail
    Forces and General Relativity
    Four Forces: Electromagnetic,Weak, Strong, Gravity
    In fact EM & Weak are currently fully unified as one theory
    (one force)
    Both E&M and Gravity follow inverse square laws to good
    approximation
    Current understanding: accident
    First, Gravity is best explained (on large length scales) by
    General Relativity

    LHS Curvature of space-time itself (R == Ricci Tensor)


    RHS Presence of Matter/Energy (T = Energy/Mom Tensor)
    Form of matter not specified
    Standard Model and QCD
    Microscopically includes the what the forces act upon.
    Standard model particles
    Hadrons
    QED-ElectroWeak, QCD: Quantum
    field theories
    Using Perturbation Theory
    Approximation
    Strong Force
    Quantum ChromoDynamics
    Confinement/ Asymptotic Freedom
    Low energy QCD Perturbation theory
    fails: uncalculable
    Not motivation for String Theory itself
    but is motivation for use of AdS/CFT
    Notice that Gravity is absent:
    However, SM proposes the existence
    of the mediator graviton which
    couples w/ all particles
    Does not specifiy any details
    Quantum Field Theory/GR
    Quantum Field Theory
    Particles (e.g. electrons) and Forces (via mediating particles e.g. photons)
    treated equally as fields
    QED Lagrangian
    Photon
    fermion-- 4 spinor
    dimensions

    4 spacial
    dimensions

    Quantized: 2 electrons -- |2> state (uses creation anniliation operators like for
    the QM Simple Harmonic Oscillator)
    Perturbation Theory: Power Series of more and more complicated transitions (2-
    >2, + 2->3+ ) sum to total probability more complicated less important
    Because of Uncertainty Principle implied by QMLocation fuzzyGR
    Curvature goes haywire
    So GR and QFT are not compatible w/ current formulations
    String Theory
    Edward Witten Intellectual Leader of String Theory
    Regarded by some as Einstein or our generation
    Ive heard: can do pages and pages of calcs in his head
    Downloading from the Mothership
    Nice simple introduction/presentation at
    http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/witten/
    String Theory
    Currently need >= 10 dimensions (9 space 1 time) to fit all SM particles,
    including new SuperSymmetric SUSY particles
    ~6 different versions of the theory
    SUSY solves Hierarchy Problem :
    -Why is Gravity so weak (vs 3 other Forces)?
    Compactification: why we dont
    see the other dimensions
    M-theory : Witten discovered
    one 11-D theory which includes others
    strings branes
    Duality / Holographic Principle Recent Advancement leading to recent
    AdS/CFT activity and other things
    Like Gauss Law or Curl Theorem:
    All information in any volume (n-D space) is reflected on the surface of
    that volume
    E.g. all interactions reflected on surface as some kind of fluctuation on that
    surface.
    Theory of the volume and theory of the surface same mathematical
    object
    Basic Idea For AdS/CFT
    Certain configuration in Higher Dimensional AdS Space
    dual to a Quantum (Conformal) Field Theory on some
    surface in that space
    Some complicated Field theory calculations become simple
    geometric problems in higher dimensions
    Dam Thanh Son Talk:

    A field theory much


    like QCD Strongly
    Coupled

    Problem: no
    confinement
    though
    Dam Thanh Son Talk:
    Dam Thanh Son Talk:

    Reminder: still just a hypothesis Not proven


    Why is it useful? At minimum can provide insights about which
    directions to take field theory calc benefit from the field theory calc
    Results
    For Heavy Ions, where we think we create a hot
    plasma of raw QCD fields w/ very low viscosity
    e.g. has yielded a conjectured lower bound for the
    viscosity of ANY quantum fluid that is compatible w/
    dataamong many other calculations
    Easy way to calculate energy loss of certain
    (heavy) quarks in strongly coupled quantum
    medium
    Some predictions that can be tested!
    Has also been applied to models of hadrons

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