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On the energy deposited by a quark moving in an N=4 SYM plasma

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We evaluate the energy momentum tensor of a massive quark as it moves through an N=4 SYM quark gluon plasma at constant velocity. We find that in the near-quark region, where the dynamics is expected to be dominated by dissipative behavior, the energy density may be quantitatively characterized by a transient at velocities above the speed of sound of the plasma.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0703095,
  title  = {On the energy deposited by a quark moving in an N=4 SYM plasma},
  author = {Amos Yarom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0703095},
  year   = {2008}
}

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19 pages, 1 figure; Typos corrected, references added