Tidal stretching of gravitons into classical strings: Application to jet quenching with AdS/CFT

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Arnold, Peter ^a   Szepietowski, Phillip ^a   Vaman, Diana ^a   Wong, Gabriel ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence; Holography and quark gluon plasmas; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882266739     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2013)130     Document Type: Article

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