Probing the quark-gluon-plasma via AdS/CFT

by Amos Yarom (Munich LMU)

Tuesday 19 Feb 2008, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

As a quark moves through a quark-gluon-plasma it looses energy, some of which may go into exciting hydrodynamic modes. Certain phenomenological models, used to explain correlations between hadronic jets in heavy ion collisions, require tuning the relative strength of these modes in order to fit the data. In this talk I show how one may use the gauge-string duality to study the channels of energy loss of a heavy parton moving through a strongly coupled conformal plasma. Implications regarding experimental results will also be discussed.