Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-03-09
JHEP 0907:022,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
21 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX. v2:references added, minor correction to speed of sound; conclusions unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/022
We probe the effectiveness and robustness of a simple gauge/gravity dual model of the QCD fireball that breaks conformal symmetry by constructing a family of similar geometries that solve the scalar/gravity equations of motion. This family has two parameters, one of which is associated to the temperature. We calculate two quantities, the speed of sound and the jet-quenching parameter. We find the speed of sound to be universal and robust over all the geometries when appropriate units are used, while the jet-quenching parameter varies significantly away from the conformal limit. We note that the overall structure of the jet-quenching depends strongly on whether the running scalar is the dilaton or not. We also discuss the variation of the scalar potential over our family of solutions, and truncate our results to where the associated error is small.
DeWolfe Oliver
Rosen Christopher
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