Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5
Abstract Collisions of asymmetric planar shocks in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are studied via their dual gravitational formulation in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. The post-collision hydrodynamic flow is found to be very well described by appropriate means of the results o...
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doaj-337eb0263a354d68a793d6b308020eac2020-11-25T01:19:11ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792019-08-012019814310.1007/JHEP08(2019)005Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5Sebastian Waeber0Andreas Rabenstein1Andreas Schäfer2Laurence G. Yaffe3Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of RegensburgInstitute for Theoretical Physics, University of RegensburgInstitute for Theoretical Physics, University of RegensburgDepartment of Physics, University of WashingtonAbstract Collisions of asymmetric planar shocks in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are studied via their dual gravitational formulation in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. The post-collision hydrodynamic flow is found to be very well described by appropriate means of the results of symmetric shock collisions. This study extends, to asymmetric collisions, previous work of Chesler, Kilbertus, and van der Schee examining the special case of symmetric collisions [1]. Given the universal description of hydrodynamic flow produced by asymmetric planar collisions one can model, quantitatively, non-planar, non-central collisions of highly Lorentz contracted projectiles without the need for computing, holographically, collisions of finite size projectiles with very large aspect ratios. This paper also contains a pedagogical description of the computational methods and software used to compute shockwave collisions using pseudo-spectral methods, supplementing the earlier overview of Chesler and Yaffe [2].http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)005AdS-CFT CorrespondenceHolography and quark-gluon plasmasQuark-Gluon PlasmaGauge-gravity correspondence |
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Sebastian Waeber Andreas Rabenstein Andreas Schäfer Laurence G. Yaffe Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5 Journal of High Energy Physics AdS-CFT Correspondence Holography and quark-gluon plasmas Quark-Gluon Plasma Gauge-gravity correspondence |
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Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5 |
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Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5 |
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Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5 |
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Abstract Collisions of asymmetric planar shocks in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are studied via their dual gravitational formulation in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. The post-collision hydrodynamic flow is found to be very well described by appropriate means of the results of symmetric shock collisions. This study extends, to asymmetric collisions, previous work of Chesler, Kilbertus, and van der Schee examining the special case of symmetric collisions [1]. Given the universal description of hydrodynamic flow produced by asymmetric planar collisions one can model, quantitatively, non-planar, non-central collisions of highly Lorentz contracted projectiles without the need for computing, holographically, collisions of finite size projectiles with very large aspect ratios. This paper also contains a pedagogical description of the computational methods and software used to compute shockwave collisions using pseudo-spectral methods, supplementing the earlier overview of Chesler and Yaffe [2]. |
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AdS-CFT Correspondence Holography and quark-gluon plasmas Quark-Gluon Plasma Gauge-gravity correspondence |
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