Heavy quark in an expanding plasma in AdS/CFT
Abstract
Using the Janik-Peschanski dual to a Bjorken flow, a Langevin equation is derived for a heavy quark in an expanding Script N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. Such a plasma is characterized by a proper-time dependence of the temperature and corresponds to a system out of equilibrium. The analysis first focuses on a quark at rest in the plasma comoving frame. The case of a quark moving across a longitudinally expanding plasma is then considered. The two-point functions for the random noise acting on such heavy quark probes are computed.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0904.1874
- Bibcode:
- 2009JHEP...06..002G
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 17 pages. v2: references added