Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-02-28
Phys.Rev.D76:065007,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages. v2: Comments in section 2 and references updated, a typo fixed
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.065007
We employ the string/gauge theory correspondence to study properties of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasmas in thermal gauge theories with a large number of colors and flavors. In particular, we analyze non-critical string duals of conformal (S)QCD, as well as ten dimensional wrapped fivebrane duals of SQCD-like theories. We study general properties of the dual plasmas, including the drag force exerted on a probe quark and the jet quenching parameter. We find that these plasma observables depend on the number of colors and flavors in the ``QCD dual''; in particular, we find that the jet quenching parameter increases linearly with N_f/N_c at leading order in the probe limit. In the ten dimensional case we find a non trivial drag coefficient but a vanishing jet quenching parameter. We comment on the relation of this result with total screening and argue that the same features are shared by all known plasmas dual to fivebranes in ten dimensions. We also construct new D5 black hole solutions with spherical horizon and show that they exhibit the same features.
Bertoldi Gaetano
Bigazzi Francesco
Cotrone Aldo L.
Edelstein Jose D.
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