Energy loss of gluons, baryons and k-quarks in an N = 4 SYM plasma

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Chernicoff, Mariano ^a   Güijosa, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947688156     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/084     Document Type: Article

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