Heavy-quark energy loss and thermalization in a strongly coupled SYM plasma
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute the radiative energy loss of a slowly decelerating heavy quark with mass M moving through a supersymmetric Yang Mills (SYM) plasma at temperature T at large t'Hooft coupling \lambda. The calculation is carried out in terms of perturbation in \sqrt{\lambda}T/M, and the rate of the energy loss is computed up to second order. We explain the physical meaning of each correction and estimate the thermalization time of a heavy quark moving in a strongly-coupled plasma.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.1051,
title = {Heavy-quark energy loss and thermalization in a strongly coupled SYM plasma},
author = {Guillaume Beuf and Cyrille Marquet and Bo-Wen Xiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1051},
year = {2014}
}
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14 pages, 1 figure