Jet quenching and the gravity dual
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We compute the momentum broadening of an energetic parton as it moves through strongly interacting matter, using the gravity dual of a non conformal gauge theory with matter in the fundamental representation. Our approach defines a family of theories, all of which have logarithmic running of the couplings in the far IR but becomes almost conformal in the far UV. For a given set of degrees of freedom, we obtain average transverse momentum square of the parton as a function of temperature and compare with results obtained from the AdS/CFT correspondence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.4699,
title = {Jet quenching and the gravity dual},
author = {Mohammed Mia and Charles Gale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4699},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee