Cherenkov mesons as in-medium quark energy loss
We recently showed that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons [1]. Here we review our previous holographic calculation of the energy loss in N=4 Super Yang-Mills and extend it to longitudinal vector mesons and scalar mesons....
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2010 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repository: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/56368 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/56368 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Holografia Quarks Camps de galga (Física) Cromodinàmica quàntica Holography Gauge fields (Physics) Quantum chromodynamics |
| Summary: | We recently showed that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons [1]. Here we review our previous holographic calculation of the energy loss in N=4 Super Yang-Mills and extend it to longitudinal vector mesons and scalar mesons. We also discuss phenomenological implications for heavy-ion collision experiments. Although the Cherenkov energy loss is an O(1/Nc) effect, a ballpark estimate yields a value of dE/dx for Nc=3 which is comparable to that of other mechanisms. |
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