Dissipation from a heavy quark moving through N=4 super-Yang-Mills plasma
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Using AdS/CFT, we compute the Fourier space profile of <tr F^2> generated by a heavy quark moving through a thermal plasma of strongly coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We find evidence of a wake whose description includes gauge fields with large momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605292,
title = {Dissipation from a heavy quark moving through N=4 super-Yang-Mills plasma},
author = {Joshua J. Friess and Steven S. Gubser and Georgios Michalogiorgakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605292},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures. v2: reference added, other minor improvements. v3: improved the phrasing describing directional structures