摘要
We show that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons. We demonstrate that this takes place in all strongly coupled, large-N-c plasmas with a gravity dual. The energy loss is exactly calculable in these models despite being an O(1/N-c) effect. We discuss implications for heavy-ion collision experiments.
- 出版日期2010-4-30