N=4 Super Yang-Mills Plasma

Alina Czajka; Stanislaw Mrowczynski

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N=4 Super Yang-Mills Plasma

Alina Czajka, Stanislaw Mrowczynski

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 8 Mar 2012

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The authors' main claim The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is finally concluded to be very similar the QCD plasma of gluons and light quarks.

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The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is studied in the regime of weak coupling. Collective excitations and collisional processes are discussed. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, the collective excitations in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium plasma are under consideration. The dispersion equations of gluon, fermion, and scalar modes are written down and the self-energies, which enter the equations, are computed in the Hard Loop Approximation. The self-energies are discussed in the context of effective action which is also given. The gluon modes and fermion ones appear to be the same as those in the QCD plasma of gluons and massless quarks. The scalar modes are as of a free relativistic massive particle. The binary collisional processes, which occur at the lowest nontrivial order of the coupling constant, are reviewed and then the transport properties of the plasma are discussed. The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is finally concluded to be very similar the QCD plasma of gluons and light quarks. The differences mostly reflect different numbers of degrees of freedom in the two systems.

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The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is studied in the regime of weak coupling. Collective excitations and collisional processes are discussed. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, the collective excitations in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium plasma are under consideration. The dispersion equations of gluon, fermion, and scalar modes are written down and the self-energies, which enter the equations, are computed in the Hard Loop Approximation. The self-energies are discussed in the context of effective action which is also given. The gluon modes and fermion ones appear to be the same as those in the QCD plasma of gluons and massless quarks. The scalar modes are as of a free relativistic massive particle. The binary collisional processes, which occur at the lowest nontrivial order of the coupling constant, are reviewed and then the transport properties of the plasma are discussed. The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is finally concluded to be very similar the QCD plasma of gluons and light quarks. The differences mostly reflect different numbers of degrees of freedom in the two systems.

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where $M_D^2$ is the adjoint scalar mass, which has been given in Ref. [ref] .

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In principle the matrix elements for these scatterings, and for those involving external and intermediate scalars in $$ SYM, differ from each other (see [ref] for a complete list).

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Later on a generalization of the action to anisotropic systems was given in [ref] .

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A great interest in the $N =4$ super Yang-Mills theory was stimulated by a discovery of the AdS/CFT duality of the five-dimensional gravity in the anti de Sitter geometry and the conformal field theories [ref] , for a review see [ref] and the lecture notes [ref] as an introduction.

TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence · Introduction · 0.98
In this way some intriguing features of strongly coupled systems driven by the $N =4$ super Yang-Mills dynamics were revealed, see the reviews [ref] , but relevance of the results for non-supersymmetric systems, which are of our actual interest, remains an open issue.

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