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The conical flow from quenched jets in sQGP

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Starting with a reminder of what is strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP), we proceed to recent advances in jet quenching and heavy quark diffusion, with a brief summary of various results based on AdS/CFT correspondence. The conical flow is a hydrodynamical phenomenon created by energy and entropy deposited by high energy jets propagating in matter, similar in nature to well known sonic boom from the supersonic planes. After a brief review, we discuss excitations of two hydro modes -- sound and ``diffuson'' -- which can be excited in this way. We also study expanding matter case, with a variable sped of sound, and use adiabatic invariants to show that the parameter v/Tv/T (vv velocity in the wave, TT temperature) is increasing, up to a factor 3, during expansion. At the end we discuss recent results of the Princeton group which derived conical flow from AdS/CFT.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0609013,
  title  = {The conical flow from quenched jets in sQGP},
  author = {Edward Shuryak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0609013},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

17 pages, a talk at Hard Probes 06, Monterey July 2006

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