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Title: Drag force in AdS/CFT

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)

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.

OSTI ID:
20871526
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 74, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.126005; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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