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Drag force in AdS/CFT

Year: 2006

Type: article

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 $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.74.126005

Author: Steven S. Gubser

Institution: Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Award: A SILICON-DRIFT-CHAMBER, A PARALLEL COMPUTER FORM, & READOUTDEVELOPMENT FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER FOR THE SSC.