Holographic lessons for quark dynamics

We give a brief overview of recent results obtained through the gauge/gravity correspondence, concerning the propagation of a heavy quark in strongly coupled conformal field theories (such as super-Yang-Mills), both at zero and finite temperature. In the vacuum, we discuss energy loss, radiation dam...

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Published inJournal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 54002 - 22
Main Authors Chernicoff, Mariano, García, J Antonio, Güijosa, Alberto, Pedraza, Juan F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IOP Publishing 01.05.2012
Subjects
AdS/CFT correspondence
Damping
Dynamics
Encapsulation
Energy (nuclear)
energy loss
Evolution
gauge/gravity correspondence
Mathematical analysis
quark gluon plasma
Quarks
radiation damping
screening
Strings
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Summary:We give a brief overview of recent results obtained through the gauge/gravity correspondence, concerning the propagation of a heavy quark in strongly coupled conformal field theories (such as super-Yang-Mills), both at zero and finite temperature. In the vacuum, we discuss energy loss, radiation damping, signal propagation and radiation-induced fluctuations. In the presence of a thermal plasma, our emphasis is on early-time energy loss, screening and quark-antiquark evolution after pair creation. Throughout, quark dynamics is seen to be efficiently encapsulated in the usual string worldsheet dynamics.
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ISSN:0954-3899
1361-6471
DOI:10.1088/0954-3899/39/5/054002