Jet quenching in strongly coupled plasma
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Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. We present calculations in which an energetic light quark shoots through a finite slab of strongly coupled N ¼ 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) plasma, with thickness L, focusing on what comes out on the other side. We find that even when the " jets " that emerge from the plasma have lost a substantial fraction of their energy they look in almost all respects like " jets " in vacuum with the same reduced energy. The one possible exception is that the opening angle of the " jet " is larger after passage through the slab of plasma than before. Along the way, we obtain a fully geometric characterization of energy loss in the strongly coupled plasma and show that dE out =dL ∝ L 2 =
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