2015/12/01 by Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge, Andrej Ficnar +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Magnetic confinement fusion research #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1512.00371
5 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2015/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2015/12/01 · arxiv updated 2015/12/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We analyse classical string configurations with non-trivial transverse dynamics in AdS5-Schwarzschild. These strings develop kink-like structures which, via the gauge/gravity duality, can be interpreted as the propagation of hard gluons produced in association with a quark-antiquark pair in a strongly coupled N=4 SYM plasma. We observe the appearance of two physically distinct regimes of the in-plasma dynamics, depending on whether the medium is able to resolve the transverse structure of the string prior to its total quench. From these studies we extract the medium resolution scale of the strongly coupled SYM plasma, defined as the smallest angular separation between two jets that the medium can resolve, θ\rm res = C\rm res ( E /√λ T)-2/3, where C\rm res= \frac24/3π(Γ(3/4)2)/(Γ(5/4)2). Our analysis constitutes the first study of proxies for three-jet events in a holographic context.