Abstract
The AdS/CFT correspondence and a classical test string approximation are used to calculate the drag force on an external quark moving in a thermal plasma of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 126005 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)