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Quasinormal modes and meson decay rates
Author(s) -
Hoyos C.,
Landsteiner K.,
Montero S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.200610375
Subject(s) - physics , quarkonium , meson , particle physics , horizon , inverse , plasma , quantum electrodynamics , brane , nuclear physics , mathematical physics , geometry , mathematics , astronomy
We model meson melting in a hot plasma by the quasinormal modes of D7‐brane fluctuations of embeddings that fall into the horizon of a black hole in Ads 5 × S 5 geometry. The inverse of the imaginary part of the quasinormal frequency gives the lifetime of the meson in the plasma. We briefly comment on the possible application of our model to quarkonium suppression.