Drag force in strongly coupled, anisotropic plasma at finite chemical potential
Somdeb Chakraborty (Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700 064, India); Najmul Haque (Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700 064, India)
We employ methods of gauge/string duality to analyze the drag force on a heavy quark moving through a strongly coupled, anisotropic N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4, SU( N ) super YangMills plasma in the presence of a finite U(1) chemical potential. We present numerical results valid for any value of the anisotropy parameter and the U(1) charge density and arbitrary direction of the quark velocity with respect to the direction of anisotropy. In the small anisotropy limit we are also able to furnish analytical results.
