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Dissipation from a heavy quark moving through N=4 super-Yang-Mills plasma

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

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0605292

Abstract

Using AdS/CFT, we compute the Fourier space profile of <tr F2> generated by a heavy quark moving through a thermal plasma of strongly coupled N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We find evidence of a wake whose description includes gauge fields with large momenta. We comment on the possible relevance of our results to relativistic heavy ion collisions.

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