Wake of color fields in charged ${\cal N}=4$ SYM plasmas

Yi-hong Gao; Wei-shui Xu; Ding-fang Zeng

Wake of color fields in charged ${\cal N}=4$ SYM plasmas

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Authors: Yi-hong Gao , Wei-shui Xu , Ding-fang Zeng

Abstract

The dissipative dynamics of a heavy quark passing through charged thermal plasmas of strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory is studied using AdS/CFT. We compute the linear response of the dilaton field to a test string in the rotating near-extremal D3 brane background, finding the momentum space profile of $<\textrm{tr}F^{2}>$ numerically. Our results naively support the wake picture discussed in hep-th/0605292, provided the rotation parameter is not too large.

Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondence heavy quark thermal plasma dilaton field linear response wake

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606266,
  title  = {Wake of color fields in charged ${\cal N}=4$ SYM plasmas},
  author = {Yi-hong Gao and Wei-shui Xu and Ding-fang Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606266},
  year   = {2007}
}

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typos corrected

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