por
Daniel Fernández
(Institut de Ciències del Cosmos/Universitat de Barcelona)
→
Europe/Madrid
Sala Seminarios (Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG))
Sala Seminarios
Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG)
Descripción
A heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma might lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons. I will show that this mechanism is a universal property of all strongly coupled, large-N_c plasmas with a gravity dual. The energy loss is exactly calculable in these models. I will also discuss phenomenological implications for heavy-ion collision experiments.