Radiation by a heavy quark in SYM at strong coupling

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.04.011zbMATH Open1215.81128arXiv1102.0232OpenAlexW1986795783MaRDI QIDQ545298FDOQ545298

Authors: A. H. Mueller, D. N. Triantafyllopoulos, Yoshitaka Hatta, Edmond Iancu 

Publication date: 22 June 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the AdS/CFT correspondence in the supergravity approximation, we compute the energy density radiated by a heavy quark undergoing some arbitrary motion in the vacuum of the strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that this energy is fully generated via backreaction from the near-boundary endpoint of the dual string attached to the heavy quark. Because of that, the energy distribution shows the same space-time localization as the classical radiation that would be produced by the heavy quark at weak coupling. We believe that this and some other unnatural features of our result (like its anisotropy and the presence of regions with negative energy density) are artifacts of the supergravity approximation, which will be corrected after including string fluctuations. For the case where the quark trajectory is bounded, we also compute the radiated power, by integrating the energy density over the surface of a sphere at infinity. For sufficiently large times, we find agreement with a previous calculation by Mikhailov [hep-th/0305196].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0232

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zbMATH Keywords

heavy quarknegative energy densityupergravity approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Supergravity (83E50)

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