Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-04-14
JHEP0806:052,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
42 pages, 23 figures, v2: minor changes, references added, v3: minor changes, references added, final version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/052
We use holographic techniques to study meson quasiparticles moving through a thermal plasma in N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory, with gauge group SU(N_c) and coupled to N_f flavours of fundamental matter. This holographic approach reliably describes the system at large N_c, large 't Hooft coupling and N_f/N_c<<1. The meson states are destabilized by introducing a small quark density n_q. Spectral functions are used to examine the dispersion relations of these quasiparticles. In a low-momentum regime, the quasiparticles approach a limiting velocity which can be significantly less than the speed of light. In this regime, the widths of the quasiparticles also rise dramatically as their momentum approaches a critical value q_crit. While the spectral functions do not display isolated resonances for q>q_crit, the dispersion relations can be extended into this high-momentum regime by studying the dual quasinormal modes. A preliminary qualitative analysis of these modes suggests that the group velocity rises to the speed of light for q>>q_crit.
Myers Robert C.
Sinha Aninda
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