Gursoy, U.; Kiritsis, E.; Mazzanti, Liuba; Michalogiorgakis, G.; Nitti, Francesco Improved holographic QCD. (English) Zbl 1246.83008 Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios (ed.), From gravity to thermal gauge theories. The AdS/CFT correspondence. Edited version of the review talks given in the 5th Aegean school on the AdS/CFT correspondence, Adamas, Milos Island, Greece, September 21–26, 2009. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-04863-0/pbk; 978-3-642-04864-7/ebook). Lecture Notes in Physics 828, 79-146 (2011). Summary: We provide a review to holographic models based on Einstein-dilaton gravity with a potential in five dimensions. Such theories, for a judicious choice of potential are very close to the physics of large-\(N\) YM theory both at zero and finite temperature. The zero temperature glueball spectra as well as their finite temperature thermodynamic functions compare well with lattice data. The model can be used to calculate transport coefficients, like bulk viscosity, the drag force and jet quenching parameters, relevant for the physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1213.00066]. Cited in 37 Documents MSC: 83-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory 83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein’s, including asymmetric field theories 83C05 Einstein’s equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) 81V05 Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics 81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory 80A10 Classical and relativistic thermodynamics 83C27 Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory 83E30 String and superstring theories in gravitational theory PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{U. Gursoy} et al., Lect. Notes Phys. 828, 79--146 (2011; Zbl 1246.83008) Full Text: DOI arXiv