Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-05-15
Phys.Rev.Lett.97:182301,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.; factor of Sqrt[2] error corrected, improving agreement between $\hat q$
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.182301
Models of medium-induced radiative parton energy loss account for the strong suppression of high-pT hadron spectra in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC in terms of a single "jet quenching parameter'' $\hat q$. The available suite of jet quenching measurements make $\hat q$ one of the experimentally best constrained properties of the hot fluid produced in RHIC collisions. We observe that $\hat q$ can be given a model-independent, nonperturbative, quantum field theoretic definition in terms of the short-distance behavior of a particular light-like Wilson loop. We then use the AdS/CFT correspondence to obtain a strong-coupling calculation of $\hat q$ in hot N=4 supersymmetric QCD, finding $\hat{q}_{SYM} = 26.69 \sqrt{\alpha_{SYM} N_c} T^3$ in the limit in which both $N_c$ and $4\pi\alpha_{SYM} N_c$ are large. We thus learn that at strong coupling $\hat q$ is not proportional to the entropy density $s$, or to some "number density of scatterers'' since, unlike the number of degrees of freedom, $\hat q$ does not grow like $N_c^2$.
Liu Hong
Rajagopal Krishna
Wiedemann Urs Achim
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