{
  "id": "hep-th/0605158",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2006-05-16T17:29:23.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-08-22T17:45:41.000Z",
  "title": "Energy loss of a heavy quark moving through N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma",
  "authors": [
    "C. P. Herzog",
    "A. Karch",
    "P. Kovtun",
    "C. Kozcaz",
    "L. G. Yaffe"
  ],
  "comment": "34 + 7 pages, 17 figures; v2 refs added, typos fixed, comment about the jet quenching parameter added; v3 published version, improved discussion, typos fixed",
  "journal": "JHEP 0607 (2006) 013",
  "doi": "10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/013",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to determine the rate of energy loss of a heavy quark moving through N=4 SU(N_c) supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma at large 't Hooft coupling. Using the dual description of the quark as a classical string ending on a D7-brane, we use a complementary combination of analytic and numerical techniques to determine the friction coefficient as a function of quark mass. Provided strongly coupled N=4 Yang-Mills plasma is a good model for hot, strongly coupled QCD, our results may be relevant for charm and bottom physics at RHIC.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2006-08-22T17:45:41.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "supersymmetric yang-mills plasma",
      "heavy quark moving",
      "energy loss",
      "ads/cft correspondence",
      "dual description"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "IOP",
      "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics",
      "year": 2006,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 2006,
      "number": 7,
      "pages": "013"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 717055,
      "adsabs": "2006JHEP...07..013H"
    }
  }
}