Speaker
Mr
Robert Moerman
(University of Cape Town)
Description
In this talk, I present the main results of our recent paper where we compute the average squared distance travelled by an initially stationary light-flavour off-mass-shell coloured parton in a strongly-coupled thermal plasma using the gauge/string duality. The calculation involves taking an ensemble average of thermal fluctuations induced by Hawking radiation emanating from the black hole horizon in AdSd -Schwarzschild on top of the leading order worldsheet of our limp noodle string. We argue that our results give us access to the time-dependent transverse momentum squared per unit pathlength picked up by a high momentum quark in a strongly-coupled thermal plasma and present the first time-dependent calculation of the transport coefficient, which is critically important for phenomenology in heavy ion collisions.
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
MSc
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
Yes
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
William Horowitz wa.horowitz@uct.ac.za
Primary author
Mr
Robert Moerman
(University of Cape Town)
Co-author
Dr
William Horowitz
(University of Cape Town)
