Stress tensor of a quark moving through N=4 thermal plasma

Joshua J. Friess; Steven S. Gubser; Georgios Michalogiorgakis; Silviu S. Pufu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.106003

Stress tensor of a quark moving through N=4 thermal plasma

Joshua J. Friess, Steven S. Gubser, Georgios Michalogiorgakis, Silviu S. Pufu

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Abstract

We develop the linear equations that describe graviton perturbations of AdS5-Schwarzschild generated by a string trailing behind an external quark moving with constant velocity. Solving these equations allows us to evaluate the stress tensor in the boundary gauge theory. Components of the stress tensor exhibit directional structures in Fourier space at both large and small momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	106003
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	75
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.106003
State	Published - May 4 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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