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Waeber, Sebastian ; Rabenstein, Andreas ; Schäfer, Andreas ; Yaffe, Laurence G.

Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5

Waeber, Sebastian, Rabenstein, Andreas, Schäfer, Andreas and Yaffe, Laurence G. (2019) Asymmetric shockwave collisions in AdS5. Journal of High Energy Physics 2019 (8), pp. 1-43.

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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.45480


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, ...

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].



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleJournal of High Energy Physics
Publisher:Springer
Place of Publication:NEW YORK
Volume:2019
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:8
Page Range:pp. 1-43
Date1 August 2019
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Schäfer > Group Andreas Schäfer
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10.1007/JHEP08(2019)005DOI
KeywordsGRAVITATIONAL WAVES; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Holography and quark-gluon plasmas; Quark-Gluon Plasma; Gauge-gravity correspondence
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-454808
Item ID45480

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