Wake of color fields in charged \cal N=4 SYM plasmas

2006/06/28 by Yi-hong Gao, Gao, Yi-hong, Wei-shui Xu +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0606266

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Abstract

The dissipative dynamics of a heavy quark passing through charged thermal plasmas of strongly coupled \cal N=4 super Yang-Mills theory is studied using AdS/CFT. We compute the linear response of the dilaton field to a test string in the rotating near-extremal D3 brane background, finding the momentum space profile of <\textrmtrF²> numerically. Our results naively support the wake picture discussed in hep-th/0605292, provided the rotation parameter is not too large.

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