Cavitation in holographic sQGP
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the possibility of cavitation in the nonconformal N=2^* SU(N) theory which is a mass deformation of N=4 SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. The second order transport coefficients are known from the numerical work using AdS/CFT by Buchel and collaborators. Using these and the approach of Rajagopal and Tripuraneni, we investigate the flow equations in a 1+1 dimensional boost invariant set up. We find that the string theory model does not exhibit cavitation before phase transition is reached. We give a semi-analytic explanation of this finding.
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@article{arxiv.1103.3987,
title = {Cavitation in holographic sQGP},
author = {Aleksandra Klimek and Louis Leblond and Aninda Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.3987},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures, v2: minor changes