Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

Details Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

2008-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1551v1

Phys.Rev.D78:066014,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

40 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.066014

We calculate the area of a marginally trapped surface formed by a head-on collision of gravitational shock waves in AdS_D. We use this to obtain a lower bound on the entropy produced after the collision. A comparison to entropy production in heavy ion collisions is included. We also discuss an O(D-2) remnant of conformal symmetry which is present in a class of gravitational shock wave collisions in AdS_D and which might be approximately realized (with D=5) in central heavy-ion collisions.

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