Testing AdS/CFT Drag and pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss
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✦ hep-ph
nucl-th
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dragenergylossbottomcharmdeterminabledeviationsdifferences
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We present charm and bottom nuclear modification factors for RHIC and LHC using Standard Model perturbative QCD and recent AdS/CFT string drag energy loss models. We find that extreme extrapolations to LHC mask potential experimentally determinable differences in the individual $R_{AA}$s but that their ratio, $R_{AA}^c/R_{AA}^b$ as a function of transverse momentum is a remarkably robust observable for finding deviations from either theoretical framework.
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