Holography and off-center collisions of localized shock waves

Jan 19, 2015
5 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (2015) 070
  • Published: Oct 12, 2015
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Abstract: (Springer)
Using numerical holography, we study the collision, at non-zero impact parameter, of bounded, localized distributions of energy density chosen to mimic relativistic heavy ion collisions, in strongly coupled N=4 \mathcal{N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Both longitudinal and transverse dynamics in the dual field theory are properly described. Using the gravitational description, we solve 5D Einstein equations with no dimensionality reducing symmetry restrictions to find the asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime geometry. Implications of our results on the understanding of early stages of heavy ion collisions, including the development of transverse radial flow, are discussed.
Note:
  • Enlarged JHEP version, 14 pages
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence
  • Classical Theories of Gravity
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • supersymmetry: 4
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • duality: holography
  • Einstein equation
  • impact parameter
  • longitudinal