Published November 23, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Gluon scattering in N = 4 Super Yang-Mills at finite temperature

  • 1. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)
  • 2. Global Edge Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8550 (Japan)

Description

We extend the AdS/CFT prescription of Alday and Maldacena to finite temperature T, defining an amplitude for gluon scattering in N = 4 Super Yang-Mills at strong coupling from string theory. It is defined by a lightlike 'Wilson loop' living at the horizon of the T-dual to the black hole in AdS space. Unlike the zero temperature case, this is different from the Wilson loop contour defined at the boundary of the AdS black hole metric, thus at nonzero T there is no relation between gluon scattering amplitudes and the Wilson loop. We calculate a gauge theory observable that can be interpreted as the amplitude at strong coupling in both cut-off and generalized dimensional regularization.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1078
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 474-476
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
16. international conference on supersymmetry and the unification of fundamental interactions
Acronym
SUSY08
Dates
16-21 Jun 2008
Place
Seoul (Korea, Republic of)

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(c) 2008 American Institute of Physics