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dc.contributor.authorHong, Juhee
dc.contributor.authorTeaney, Derek
dc.contributor.authorChesler, Paul Michael
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-28T15:32:25Z
dc.date.available2012-08-28T15:32:25Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.date.submitted2012-04
dc.identifier.issn0556-2813
dc.identifier.issn1089-490X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72368
dc.description.abstractWe compute the nonequilibrium stress tensor induced by a heavy quark moving through weakly coupled QCD plasma at the speed of light and compare the result to N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. The QCD Boltzmann equation is reformulated as a Fokker-Planck equation in a leading logarithmic approximation, which is used to compute the induced stress. The transition from nonequilibrium at short distances to equilibrium at long distances is analyzed with first- and second-order hydrodynamics. Even after accounting for the obvious differences in shear lengths, the strongly coupled theory is significantly better described by hydrodynamics at subasymptotic distances. We argue that this difference between the kinetic and the anti-de Sitter space/conformal field theories is related to the second-order hydrodynamic coefficient τ[subscript π]. τ[subscript π] is numerically large in units of the shear length for theories based on the Boltzmann equation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Dept. of Energy. Outstanding Junior Investigator Program (Grant Number DE-FG-02-08ER4154)en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.064903en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceAPSen_US
dc.titleWake of a heavy quark in non-Abelian plasmas: Comparing kinetic theory and the anti-de Sitter space/conformal field theory correspondenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationHong, Juhee, Derek Teaney, and Paul Chesler. “Wake of a Heavy Quark in non-Abelian Plasmas: Comparing Kinetic Theory and the Anti-de Sitter Space/conformal Field Theory Correspondence.” Physical Review C 85.6 (2012). ©2012 American Physical Societyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physicsen_US
dc.contributor.approverChesler, Paul Michael
dc.contributor.mitauthorChesler, Paul Michael
dc.relation.journalPhysical Review Cen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsHong, Juhee; Teaney, Derek; Chesler, Paulen
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US
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