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arxiv hep-th/0605182 v1 pith:7GBUWAUR submitted 2006-05-18 hep-th hep-ph

Drag force in AdS/CFT

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keywords dragforceapproximationcalculateclassicalcollisionscomputationcorrespondence
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The AdS/CFT correspondence and a classical test string approximation are used to calculate the drag force on an external quark moving in a thermal plasma of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.

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