Drag force in AdS/CFT

Journal Article · Fri Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2006 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.74.126005· OSTI ID:20871526

Gubser, Steven S ^[1]

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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, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 74; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
APPROXIMATIONS
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
JET MODEL
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARKS
QUENCHING
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
STRING MODELS
YANG-MILLS THEORY