Speaker
Andrey Sadofyev
(MIT)
Description
I will describe the results of an exploration currently in progress of how
to use holographic calculations of an ensemble of energetic light quarks
to describe the energy loss and broadening in angle of jets in heavy ion collisions. We construct an ensemble of energetic light quarks in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory, with a distribution of the "jet" angular
extent for a given "jet" energy based upon what is known about real
jets in pp collisions. We then see how this distribution changes
after the "jets" propagate through a slab of strongly coupled plasma, which
degrades their energies and expands their angular extent.
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Primary authors
Andrey Sadofyev
(MIT)
Krishna Rajagopal
(Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
Wilke van der Schee
(MIT)
