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Drag force in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605182,
  title  = {Drag force in AdS/CFT},
  author = {Steven S. Gubser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605182},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages