The quark-gluon plasma and D6-branes on the conifold

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.03.020zbMATH Open1194.81273arXiv0711.3763OpenAlexW2038038752MaRDI QIDQ992453FDOQ992453

Authors: Johannes Schmude 

Publication date: 13 September 2010

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

Abstract: We investigate the possibility of constructing a supergravity background dual to the quark-gluon plasma using D6-branes wrapping a three-cycle in the deformed conifold. The UV-completion of this setup is given by M-theory on a G2 holonomy manifold. For the class of metrics considered we find that there are only non-extremal D-brane solutions in the limit of the singular conifold with the singularity being resolved by the D-brane horizon. The thermodynamic properties of the system show some puzzling features, such as negative specific heat at an unusual behavior of the entropy. Among the properties of the plasma studied using this holographic dual are the quark-antiquark potential, the shear viscosity and parton energy loss. While one finds the expected behavior for the potential and the viscosity -- deconfinement and the universal shear-viscosity to entropy ratio -- both the jet quenching parameter and the calculation of the drag force lead us to the conclusion that there is no parton energy loss in the dual plasma. Our results indicate that the background constructed is not dual to a realistic QGP, yet we argue that this should improve upon inclusion of the three-form gauge potential in the eleven-dimensional background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3763

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zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic propertiesquark-antiquark potentialshear viscosity - deconfinement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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