Gluon energy loss in the gauge-string duality

By S. Gubser, Daniel R. Gulotta, Silviu S. Pufu, F. Rocha. 2008

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We estimate the stopping length of an energetic gluon in a thermal plasma of strongly coupled = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory by representing the gluon as a doubled string rising up out of the horizon.

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Citations in the corpus

• Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions (2011, background): “(The analogous set up for a back-to-back pair of high energy gluons [529] involves a doubled loop of string, rather than an open string with a quark and antiquark at its ends.”
• Light quark energy loss in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma (2008, methodology): “[35] are generally plausible, we believe that it is clearly desirable to perform a quantitative, controlled study of the penetration distance of light quarks (or gluons) in a strongly coupled plasma.”
• Heavy ions and string theory (2013, background): “A difficulty in the proposal of [149] is that the initial state of the string representing the gluon (or light quark) is highly underdetermined, making it difficult to provide an unambiguous evaluation of the constant of proportionality in the stopping distance relation.”
• From Gauge-string duality to strong interactions: A Pedestrian's guide (2009, background): “Another example is the falling strings of refs (85,86,87) where one sets up in the N = 4 SYM an initial state that corresponds to a sharply localized initial distribution of energy and momentum, as from an”
• AdS/CFT Duality User Guide (2014, methodology): “Finally, we list review articles which cover applications of AdS/CFT [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19].”
• A hybrid strong/weak coupling approach to jet quenching (2014, background): “[23] and have shown that these excitations also have xstop ∝ E in /T 4/3.”