{
  "id": "1505.05012",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-05-19T14:25:57.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-05-19T14:25:57.000Z",
  "title": "Universal relaxation in quark-gluon plasma at strong coupling",
  "authors": [
    "Alex Buchel",
    "Andrew Day"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1108.6070",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use top-down gauge theory/string theory correspondence to compute relaxation rates in strongly coupled nonconformal gauge theory plasma. We compare models with difference mechanisms of breaking the scale invariance: \"hard breaking\" (by relevant operators) and \"soft breaking\" (by marginal operators). We find that the thermalization time of the transverse traceless fluctuations of the stress-energy tensor is rather insensitive to the mechanisms of breaking the scale invariance over a large range of the scale-breaking parameter $\\delta=\\frac 13-c_s^2$. We comment on the relevance of the results to QCD quark-gluon plasma.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-05-19T14:25:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "11.25.Tq",
      "12.38.Mh"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "quark-gluon plasma",
      "universal relaxation",
      "strong coupling",
      "coupled nonconformal gauge theory plasma",
      "scale invariance"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.92.026009"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1371748
    }
  }
}