9 A Tail of a Quark in N = 4 SYM
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We study the dynamics of a ‘composite’ or ‘dressed’ quark in stronglycoupled large-Nc N = 4 super-Yang-Mills, making use of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that the standard string dynamics nicely captures the physics of the quark and its surrounding non-Abelian field configuration, making it possible to derive a relativistic equation of motion that incorporates the effects of radiation damping. From this equation one can deduce a non-standard dispersion relation for the composite quark, as well as a Lorentz covariant formula for its rate of radiation. We explore the consequences of the equation in a few simple examples.
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3 S ep 2 00 9 A Tail of a Quark in N = 4 SYM
We study the dynamics of a ‘composite’ or ‘dressed’ quark in stronglycoupled large-Nc N = 4 super-Yang-Mills, making use of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that the standard string dynamics nicely captures the physics of the quark and its surrounding non-Abelian field configuration, making it possible to derive a relativistic equation of motion that incorporates the effects of radiation dam...
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