Drag force in AdS/CFT
Abstract
The AdS/CFT correspondence and a classical test string approximation are used to calculate the drag force on an external quark moving in a thermal plasma of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.126005
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0605182
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvD..74l6005G
- Keywords:
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- 11.25.Tq;
- 12.38.Mh;
- Gauge/string duality;
- Quark-gluon plasma;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 9 pages