Energy loss of a heavy quark moving through N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Herzog, Christopher P ^a   Karch, Andreas ^a   Kovtun, Pavel ^b   Kozcaz, Can ^a   Yaffe, Laurence G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Heavy Quark Physics; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748777108     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/013     Document Type: Article

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