The energy of a moving quark-antiquark pair in an Script N = 4 SYM plasma

By M. Chernicoff, J. Antonio García, A. Guijosa. 2006

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We make use of the AdS/CFT correspondence to determine the energy of an external quark-antiquark pair that moves through strongly-coupled thermal = 4 super-Yang-Mills plasma, both in the rest frame of the plasma and in the rest frame of the pair. It is found that the pair feels no drag force, has an energy that reproduces the expected 1/L (or γ/L) behavior at small quark-antiquark separations, and becomes unbound beyond a certain screening length whose velocity-dependence we determine. We discuss the relation between the high-velocity limit of our results and the lightlike Wilson loop proposed recently as a definition of the jet-quenching parameter.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Gluon energy loss in the gauge-string duality (2008, background): “discussed in a number of papers, including [2, 22, 23, 24 , 25, 26].”
Holographic melting and related properties of mesons in a quark-gluon plasma (2006, background): “similar dependence on the velocity was found for the screening length, or more precisely, the maximum interquark distance for Wilson loops in an AdS black hole background. See also related results in [35]. 7We should emphasise that what we have computed here is diﬀerent from the computation of [17].”
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