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Jet Nuclear Modification Factor from the AdS/CFT Correspondence

3 Dec 2014, 15:30
30m

Speaker

Dr Razieh Morad (University of Cape Town)

Description

We define a novel definition of the holographic light hadron jet by a separation of scales from plasma to jet, which leads to the re-emergence of the late-time Bragg peak in the instantaneous jet energy loss rate. We use the holographic energy loss of light quark and our new jet prescription in AdS/CFT to calculate the nuclear modification factor of jet for a brick of plasma (both static and expanding plasma) and compare the AdS/CFT results with the experimental data for most central Pb-Pb collision at LHC at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy. Defining a “renormalized” AdS/CFT jets that we argue better reflect QCD physics, we find a surprisingly good agreement between our toy model which is the first fully strongly coupled calculations, and preliminary jet suppression data from heavy ion collisions at LHC.

Primary author

Dr Razieh Morad (University of Cape Town)

Co-author

Dr William Horowitz (University of Cape Town)

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