Abstract
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 super-Yang-Mills theory. This computation is motivated by the phenomenon of jet-quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
- Received 9 August 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.126005
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