Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS(5)

Waeber, Sebastian and Rabenstein, Andreas and Schaefer, Andreas and Yaffe, Laurence G. (2019) Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS(5). JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (8): 005. ISSN 1029-8479,

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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].

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Holography and quark-gluon plasmas; Quark-Gluon Plasma; Gauge-gravity correspondence
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Schäfer > Group Andreas Schäfer
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2020 05:55
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2020 05:55
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/26514

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