Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-07-03
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.174:306-316,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
10 pages, 4 figures. Based on the talk presented at the YITP International Symposium Fundamental Problems in Hot and/or Dense
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTPS.174.306
Calculations using the AdS/CFT correspondence can be used to unveil the short-distance structure of a strongly coupled plasma, as it would be seen by a `hard probe'. The results of these calculations admit a natural physical interpretation in terms of parton evolution in the plasma: via successive branchings, essentially all partons cascade down to very small values of the longitudinal momentum fraction x and to transverse momenta smaller than the saturation momentum Q_s\sim T/x. This scale Q_s controls the energy loss and the transverse momentum broadening of an energetic jet propagating through the plasma. This picture has some striking consequences, like the absence of jets in electron-proton annihilation at strong coupling, of the absence of particle production at forward and backward rapidities in hadron-hadron collisions, which look very different from the corresponding predictions of perturbative QCD and also from the known experimental situation.
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