Spacelike strings and jet quenching from a Wilson loop

Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz; Mohammad Edalati; Philip C. Argyres

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Spacelike strings and jet quenching from a Wilson loop

Philip C. Argyres, Mohammad Edalati, Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 15 Dec 2006

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The authors' main claim We show that this proposed definition gives zero jet quenching parameter, independent of how the lightlike limit is taken.

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We investigate stationary string solutions with spacelike worldsheet in a five-dimensional AdS black hole background, and find that there are many branches of such solutions. Using a non-perturbative definition of the jet quenching parameter proposed by Liu et. al., hep-ph/0605178, we take the lightlike limit of these solutions to evaluate the jet quenching parameter in an N=4 super Yang-Mills thermal bath. We show that this proposed definition gives zero jet quenching parameter, independent of how the lightlike limit is taken. In particular, the minimum-action solution giving the dominant contribution to the Wilson loop has a leading behavior that is linear, rather than quadratic, in the quark separation.

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We investigate stationary string solutions with spacelike worldsheet in a five-dimensional AdS black hole background, and find that there are many branches of such solutions. Using a non-perturbative definition of the jet quenching parameter proposed by Liu et. al., hep-ph/0605178, we take the lightlike limit of these solutions to evaluate the jet quenching parameter in an N=4 super Yang-Mills thermal bath. We show that this proposed definition gives zero jet quenching parameter, independent of how the lightlike limit is taken. In particular, the minimum-action solution giving the dominant contribution to the Wilson loop has a leading behavior that is linear, rather than quadratic, in the quark separation.

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So, once we have understood how the nonstandard operator ordering in ([ref]) modifies the boundary conditions for the string world sheet, we see that the trivial world sheet of Refs. [ref] and all of its generalizations in Refs. [ref] do not satisfy the correct boundary conditions.

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