https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5520-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Jets in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
1
Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of Technology, P.O. Box 3619995161, Shahrood, Iran
2
STAG Research Centre Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
3
Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa
* e-mail: bitaghsir@shahroodut.ac.ir
** e-mail: K.Bitaghsir-Fadafan@soton.ac.uk
Received:
26
November
2017
Accepted:
29
December
2017
Published online:
11
January
2018
In this paper, we study the dynamics of the light quark jet moving through the static, strongly coupled 
, anisotropic plasma with and without charge. The light quark is presented by a 2-parameters point-like initial condition falling string in the context of the AdS/CFT. We calculate the stopping distance of the light quark in the anisotropic medium and compare it with its isotropic value. We study the dependency of the stopping distance to the both string initial conditions and background parameters such as anisotropy parameter or chemical potential. Although the typical behavior of the string in the anisotropic medium is similar to the one in the isotropic AdS-Sch background, the string falls faster to the horizon depending on the direction of moving. Particularly, the enhancement of quenching is larger in the beam direction. We find that the suppression of stopping distance is more prominent when the anisotropic plasma have the same temperature as the isotropic plasma.
© The Author(s), 2018
