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Nature Physics 3, 297 - 298 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys604

Subject Category: Particle physics

Heavy-ion collisions: Where string theory meets reality?

Makoto Natsuume1

  1. Makoto Natsuume is at the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801 Japan. e-mail: makoto.natsuume@kek.jp

Experimental physicists study the strong force; string theorists try to calculate its effects. Together, they are finding common ground, where string theory can be applied to the physics of quark–gluon plasma.

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