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We study the gravitational dual of a high-energy collision in a confining gauge theory. We consider a linearized approach in which two point particles traveling in an AdS-soliton background suddenly collide to form an object at rest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Vitor Cardoso , Roberto Emparan , David Mateos , Paolo Pani , Jorge V. Rocha

We propose a new and simple method of estimating the radiation due to an accelerated quark in a strongly coupled medium, within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we offer a heuristic explanation of the collimated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Veronika E. Hubeny

We investigate second-order gravitational perturbations in asymptotically AdS black branes, developing a gauge-invariant framework to compute the amplitude ratio between quadratic and linear quasi-normal modes. Our analysis reveals resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Wen-Bin Pan , Zhangping Yu , Yi Ling

We present a calculation of two-point correlation functions of the stress-energy tensor in the strongly-coupled, confining gauge theory which is holographically dual to the AdS soliton geometry. The fact that the AdS soliton smoothly caps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-06 Felix M. Haehl

We study the role of the Gauss-Bonnet corrections to the gravity action on the charged AdS black hole in presence of rank 3 antisymmetric Kalb Ramond tensor field strength. Analyzing the branch singularity and the killing horizon, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Sayantan Choudhury , Soumitra SenGupta

We calculate energy correlators in a holographic model incorporating elements of asymptotic freedom and confinement. We model a running coupling by considering a geometry with a warp factor that deviates logarithmically from anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-07 Csaba Csáki , Ameen Ismail , Larissa Kiriliuk

Black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds play a pivotal role in the gauge/gravity duality where they determine, among other things, the approach to equilibrium of the dual field theory. We undertake a detailed analysis of perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Vitor Cardoso , Oscar J. C. Dias , Gavin S. Hartnett , Luis Lehner , Jorge E. Santos

The inner structure of realistic materials make them exhibit momentum relaxation. In this paper we study the holographic version of the Joule-Thomson effect on AdS black holes in which translational invariance is broken by two methods:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-29 Adolfo Cisterna , Shi-Qian Hu , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We calculate energy correlators in a general holographic model of confinement, involving an asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) warped extra dimension. Building on a recent computation in a minimal hard-wall model of confinement, we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-05 Csaba Csáki , Steven Ferrante , Ameen Ismail

We study instant conformal symmetry breaking as a holographic effect of ultrarelativistic particles moving in the AdS3 spacetime. We give the qualitative picture of this effect probing it by two-point correlation functions and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-22 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva

4D cylindrical gravitational waves with aligned polarizations (Einstein-Rosen waves) are shown to be described by a weight 1/2 massive free field on the double cover of AdS_2. Thorn's C-energy is one of the sl(2,R) generators, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Niedermaier

In this paper, we derived a critical condition for matter equilibration in heavy ion collisions using a holographic approach. A gravitational shock waves with infinite transverse extension is used to model infinite nucleus. We constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Shu Lin , Edward Shuryak

We give a direct computation of the mass of black holes in Warped Anti-de Sitter space (WAdS) in terms of the Brown-York stress-tensor at the boundary. This permits to explore to what extent the holographic renormalization techniques can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 Gastón Giribet , Andrés Goya

We analyse a one parameter family of supersymmetric solutions of type IIB supergravity that includes AdS_5 x S^5. For small values of the parameter the solutions are causally well-behaved, but beyond a critical value closed timelike curves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Jan B. Gutowski , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We present results from the evolution of spacetimes that describe the merger of asymptotically global AdS black holes in 5D with an SO(3) symmetry. Prompt scalar field collapse provides us with a mechanism for producing distinct trapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Hans Bantilan , Paul Romatschke

We consider spherical gravitational perturbations of AdS4 space-time satisfying general boundary conditions at spatial infinity. Using the holographic renormalization method, we compute the energy-momentum tensor and show that it can always…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Ioannis Bakas

With a view to understanding extended-BMS symmetries in the framework of the $AdS_4/CFT_3$ correspondence, asymptotically AdS geometries are constructed with null impulsive shockwaves involving a discontinuity in superrotation parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 David A. Lowe , David M. Ramirez

Using a microscopic transport model together with a coalescence after-burner, we study the formation of deuterons in Au + Au central collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200 AGeV$. It is found that the deuteron transverse momentum distributions are…

We demonstrate that ultra-relativistic black hole encounters reveal a new regime of the two-body interaction in general relativity. Evolving equal-mass, nonspinning black holes with initial center-of-mass Lorentz factors up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Hengrui Zhu , Frans Pretorius , James M. Stone

We study the back-reaction of a quantum scalar field on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator for a massless, conformally-coupled quantum scalar field on global AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Jacob C. Thompson , Elizabeth Winstanley