Chiral drag force

We provide a holographic evaluation of novel contributions to the drag force acting on a heavy quark moving through strongly interacting plasma. The new contributions are chiral in the sense that they act in opposite directions in plasmas containing an excess of left- or right-handed quarks. The new...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rajagopal, Krishna, Sadofyev, Andrey
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103803
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9679-2409
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5812-8718