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arxiv: 0804.4330 · v1 · submitted 2008-04-28 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Testing AdS/CFT Drag and pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss

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keywords 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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