Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 61: 527-533
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1011-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Drag force of moving quark in STU background

¹ Sciences Faculty, Department of Physics, Mazandaran University, P.O. Box 47415-416, Babolsar, Iran
² Department of Science, Payame Noor University, Bijar, Iran

^* e-mail: pouriya@ipm.ir

Received: 18 November 2008
Revised: 14 February 2009
Published online: 8 April 2009

Abstract

In this paper we consider a quark moving in D=5, supergravity thermal plasma. By using the three charges non-extremal black hole solution (STU solution) we calculate the drag force on the quark and the diffusion constant from the AdS/CFT correspondence.