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Jet quenching in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
Fecha
2012Registro en:
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, NEW YORK, v. 155, n. 8, supl. 1, Part 6, pp. 137-145, AUG, 2012
1126-6708
10.1007/JHEP08(2012)041
Autor
Chernicoff, Mariano
Fernandez, Daniel
Mateos, David
Trancanelli, Diego
Institución
Resumen
The jet quenching parameter of an anisotropic plasma depends on the relative orientation between the anisotropic direction, the direction of motion of the parton, and the direction along which the momentum broadening is measured. We calculate the jet quenching parameter of an anisotropic, strongly coupled N = 4 plasma by means of its gravity dual. We present the results for arbitrary orientations and arbitrary values of the anisotropy. The anisotropic value can be larger or smaller than the isotropic one, and this depends on whether the comparison is made at equal temperatures or at equal entropy densities. We compare our results to analogous calculations for the real-world quark-gluon plasma and find agreement in some cases and disagreement in others.