Drag force in AdS/CFT

May, 2006
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 126005
e-Print:
Report number:
  • PUPT-2198

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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 N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
  • 11.25.Tq
  • 12.38.Mh
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • field theory: conformal
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • supersymmetry
  • string model
  • external field
  • quark: force
  • jet: quenching