Jet quenching via gravitational radiation in thermal AdS space-time

2011/10/04 by Edward Shuryak, Ho-Ung Yee, Ismail Zahed +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Active galactic nucleus #Astrophysical jet #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Drag #Galaxy #Gravitation #Gravitational energy #Gravitational field #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Jet (fluid) #Jet quenching #Lorentz transformation #Mechanics #Physics #Plasma #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Radiation #Space (punctuation) #Thermal #Thermal energy #Thermal radiation #Thermodynamics #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.85.104006

12 pp 3 figs

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Abstract

We argue that classical bulk gravitational radiation effects in AdS/CFT, previously ignored because of their subleading nature in the 1/N_c expansion, are magnified by powers of large Lorentz factors \ensuremathγ for ultrarelativistic jets, thereby dominating other forms of jet energy loss in holography at finite temperature. We make use of the induced gravitational self-force in thermal anti-de Sitter to estimate its effects. In a thermal medium, relativistic jets may lose most of their energy through longitudinal drag caused by the energy accumulated in their nearby field as they zip through the strongly coupled plasma.

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