Heavy-quark energy loss and thermalization in a strongly coupled SYM plasma

Details Heavy-quark energy loss and thermalization in a strongly coupled SYM plasma Heavy-quark energy loss and thermalization in a strongly coupled SYM plasma

2008-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1051v1

Phys.Rev.D80:085001,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, 1 figure

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Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute the radiative energy loss of a slowly decelerating heavy quark with mass M moving through a supersymmetric Yang Mills (SYM) plasma at temperature T at large t'Hooft coupling \lambda. The calculation is carried out in terms of perturbation in \sqrt{\lambda}T/M, and the rate of the energy loss is computed up to second order. We explain the physical meaning of each correction and estimate the thermalization time of a heavy quark moving in a strongly-coupled plasma.

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