17–24 Jul 2013
KTH and Stockholm University Campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Jet quenching in a strongly interacting plasma - A lattice approach

20 Jul 2013, 11:23
23m
F3 (KTH Campus)

F3

KTH Campus

Talk presentation Non-perturbative QFT and String Theory Non-perturbative QFT and String Theory

Speaker

Marco Panero (University of Helsinki)

Description

The phenomenon of jet quenching, related to the momentum broadening of a high-energy parton, provides important experimental evidence for the production of a strongly coupled, deconfined medium in heavy-ion collisions. Its theoretical description has been addressed in a number of works, both perturbatively and non-perturbatively (using the gauge-gravity duality). In this contribution, following a proposal by Caron-Huot, we discuss a novel approach to this problem, enabling one to extract non-perturbative information on this real-time phenomenon from simulations on a Euclidean lattice.

Primary author

Marco Panero (University of Helsinki)

Co-authors

Andreas Schäfer (University of Regensburg) Kari Rummukainen (University of Helsinki)

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