Energy loss in a strongly coupled thermal medium and the gauge-string duality

Details Energy loss in a strongly coupled thermal medium and the gauge-string duality Energy loss in a strongly coupled thermal medium and the gauge-string duality

2009-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4041v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

61 pages, 9 figures, invited review to appear in Quark-Gluon Plasma 4

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We review methods developed in the gauge-string duality to treat energy loss by energetic probes of a strongly coupled thermal medium. After introducing the black hole description of the thermal medium, we discuss the trailing string behind a heavy quark and the drag force that it implies. We then explain how to solve the linearized Einstein equations in the presence of the trailing string and extract from the solutions the energy density and the Poynting vector of the dual gauge theory. We summarize some efforts to compare these calculations to heavy ion phenomenology.

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