Collective String Interactions in AdS/QCD and High-Multiplicity pA Collisions

Understand

QCD strings originate from high-energy scattering in the form of Reggeons and Pomerons, and have been studied in some detail in lattice numerical simulations.

• Production of multiple strings, with their subsequent breaking, is now a mainstream model of high energy $pp$ and $pA$ collisions.
• Recent LHC experiments revealed that high multiplicity end of such collisions show interesting collective effects.
• This ignited an interest in the interaction of QCD strings and multi-string dynamics.