Student Collaborations

Scalar Meson-Glueball Mixing

Image Credit: Sarah Szabo Joshua Rollag is working with me in the summer of 2015 to complete the analysis of the Three-Field AdS/QCD Model. Within this model, the scalar f0 meson equation of motion is seen to mix with the equation of motion for the glueball excitations. Using an approximation that is solvable by hand, we…

Holographic Model of Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermodynamics

Photo credit: Fabian Oefner Eli Lilleskov is working with me in the summer of 2015 on a project to model the thermodynamic quantities of a strongly-coupled plasma using the AdS/CFT correspondence. This is accomplished by introducing a black hole into the AdS metric. Eli’s research is supported by the Wallace Scholarly Activities Program. Eli will travel…

Pure Glue AdS/QCD

Image: MC Escher, Circle Limit III Aditya Dhumuntarao began working with my PhD adviser, Joe Kapusta, at the University of Minnesota through the REU program in the summer of 2015. I soon joined the collaboration during my first year at Macalester. We eventually published a paper extending the ideas from “A Dynamical Three-Field AdS/QCD Model”…

Meson Melting

Image credit: TU Wien Theo Jacobson worked with me in the summer of 2016 and spring of 2017 on a project using the AdS/CFT correspondence to study the spectra of mesons at finite temperature and density. We co-authored a forthcoming article in Physical Review D (pre-print) that describes chiral symmetry restoration as temperature and baryon chemical potential…