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...

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Main Authors: Rajagopal, Krishna (Contributor), Sadofyev, Andrey (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016-07-29T17:09:07Z.
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