1206.2271 (Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan et al.)

Energy loss in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma    [PDF]

Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan, Hesam Soltanpanahi

We study the energy lost by a rotating infinitely massive quark plowing, at constant velocity, through an anisotropic strongly coupled N=4 plasma from holography. It is shown that like the isotropic case the energy deposited either by the drag force or synchrotron radiation of quark in circular motion. We find that the anisotropic parameter has a main effect on the energy lost of heavy quark. We argue that the radiative energy is less than the isotropic case which is interestingly similar to the analogous calculations for the energy loss in weakly coupled anisotropic plasma.

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