Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-01-16
PoS Confinement8:131,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
6 pages, 3 figures, prepared for the proceedings of the 8th Conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", September
Scientific paper
In this talk we present applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to strongly coupled systems at finite temperature and particle density. The model we investigate contains adjoint matter described by the gauge multiplet of N=4, as well as fundamental matter given by the hypermultiplet of N=2 Super Yang-Mills theory. In some aspects these systems can be thought of as models for the quark-gluon plasma. In the first part we review some properties of meson spectra obtained from these holographic models. We discuss the implications of finite temperature and particle density in these string-theory motivated setups. In particular, we find a broadening of the vector meson peaks in the relevant spectral function at finite density. However, we do not observe a movement of the resonances to lower frequencies. Moreover, we analyze the effects of strong coupling on heavy meson diffusion in medium. To do so, we make use of an effective model with dipole interaction, which is valid for heavy quarks at arbitrary coupling strength. We calculate the momentum broadening -- normalized to the in-medium mass shift -- and compare the large 't Hooft coupling AdS/CFT result with a perturbative result for weak coupling. We find that the momentum broadening is reduced at large 't Hooft coupling, leading to increased relaxation time.
Erdmenger Johanna
Kaminski Matthias
Rust Felix
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