A new mechanism of quark energy loss

por Daniel Fernández (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos/Universitat de Barcelona)

viernes 14 may. 2010 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios (Dpto. de Física Teórica (UVEG))

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.