Toward the AdS/CFT dual of the "Little Bang"

Abstract

This (rather subjective) review sums up few years of work devoted to explain various aspects of high energy heavy ion collisions using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The central issue of is is formation of the trapped surface (black hole) phenomenon, seen by a distant observer as the entropy production. We end up discussing an issue of classical gravitational radiation by an ultrarelativistic falling body and the so called breaking self-force related to it.

Comments: a review to appear in topical volume of reviews collected by editors, S.Bass and G.Casaladerrey-Solana