Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

Steven S. Gubser; Silviu S. Pufu; Amos Yarom

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.066014

Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions

Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom

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Abstract

We calculate the area of a marginally trapped surface formed by a head-on collision of gravitational shock waves in AdSD. We use this to obtain a lower bound on the entropy produced after the collision. A comparison to entropy production in heavy-ion collisions is included. We also discuss an O(D-2) remnant of conformal symmetry, which is present in a class of gravitational shockwave collisions in AdSD and which might be approximately realized (with D=5) in central heavy-ion collisions.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	066014
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.066014
State	Published - Sep 24 2008

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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