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Holographic Jets in an Expanding Plasma

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We use the holographic principle to study quark jets with trailing strings in an expanding plasma that asymptotes Bjorken hydrodynamics. We make use of the fact that the trailing string is the locus of the light delay in bulk to obtain the explicit form for quark jets in the expanding plasma. From the trailing string solution we calculate the drag coefficient of a heavy quark in the strongly coupled expanding plasma. The energy scaling of the maximum penetration length of an ultrarelativistic light quark jet using light rays in bulk is estimated.

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@article{arxiv.1110.2943,
  title  = {Holographic Jets in an Expanding Plasma},
  author = {Alexander Stoffers and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2943},
  year   = {2012}
}