Drag and jet quenching of heavy quarks in a strongly coupled N=2* plasma

Details Drag and jet quenching of heavy quarks in a strongly coupled N=2* plasma Drag and jet quenching of heavy quarks in a strongly coupled N=2* plasma

2009-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0907.5036v3

JHEP 0909:068,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

30 pages, 5 figures, references added, minor corrections. To be published in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/068

The drag of a heavy quark and the jet quenching parameter are studied in the strongly coupled N=2* plasma using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Both increase in units of the spatial string tension as the theory departs from conformal invariance. The description of heavy quark dynamics using a Langevin equation is also considered. It is found that the difference between the velocity dependent factors of the transverse and longitudinal momentum broadening of the quark admit an interpretation in terms of relativistic effects, so the distribution is spherical in the quark rest frame. When conformal invariance is broken there is a broadening of the longitudinal momentum distribution. This effect may be useful in understanding the jet distribution observed in experiments.

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