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Back reaction effects on the dynamics of heavy probes in heavy quark cloud

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We holographically study the effect of back reaction on the hydrodynamical properties of N=4\mathcal{N} = 4 strongly coupled super Yang-Mills (SYM) thermal plasma. The back reaction we consider arises from the presence of static heavy quarks uniformly distributed over N=4\mathcal{N} = 4 SYM plasma. In order to study the hydrodynamical properties, we use heavy quark as well as heavy quark-antiquark bound state as probes and compute the jet quenching parameter, screening length and binding energy. We also consider the rotational dynamics of heavy probe quark in the back-reacted plasma and analyse associated energy loss. We observe that the presence of back reaction enhances the energy-loss in the thermal plasma. Finally, we show that there is no effect of angular drag on the rotational motion of quark-antiquark bound state probing the back reacted thermal plasma.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04761,
  title  = {Back reaction effects on the dynamics of heavy probes in heavy quark cloud},
  author = {Shankhadeep Chakrabortty and Tanay K. Dey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04761},
  year   = {2016}
}

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29 pages, 21 figures