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Title: Stress tensor of a quark moving through N=4 thermal plasma

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

We develop the linear equations that describe graviton perturbations of AdS{sub 5}-Schwarzschild generated by a string trailing behind an external quark moving with constant velocity. Solving these equations allows us to evaluate the stress tensor in the boundary gauge theory. Components of the stress tensor exhibit directional structures in Fourier space at both large and small momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

OSTI ID:
20935276
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.106003; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English