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Enhancing the Jet Quenching Parameter from Marginal Deformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A number of recent papers have applied the AdS/CFT correspondence to a strong-coupling calculation of the medium-induced radiative parton energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC. The predicted value of the "jet quenching parameter" q, however, is rather small compared to the experimental results. For hot N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, certain marginal deformations can have the effect of enhancing q. This result is highly sensitive to the location of the fundamental string's endpoints in the internal space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605296,
  title  = {Enhancing the Jet Quenching Parameter from Marginal Deformations},
  author = {Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605296},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures, additional comments and references