Jets in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma

• Main Authors: Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan, Razieh Morad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-01-01
• Series: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5520-y

Abstract In this paper, we study the dynamics of the light quark jet moving through the static, strongly coupled $${\mathcal {N}}=4$$ N=4 , anisotropic plasma with and without charge. The light quark is presented by a 2-parameters point-like initial condition falling string in the context of the AdS/CFT. We calculate the stopping distance of the light quark in the anisotropic medium and compare it with its isotropic value. We study the dependency of the stopping distance to the both string initial conditions and background parameters such as anisotropy parameter or chemical potential. Although the typical behavior of the string in the anisotropic medium is similar to the one in the isotropic AdS-Sch background, the string falls faster to the horizon depending on the direction of moving. Particularly, the enhancement of quenching is larger in the beam direction. We find that the suppression of stopping distance is more prominent when the anisotropic plasma have the same temperature as the isotropic plasma.