Holographic Thermalization in Quark Confining Background

TL;DR

This paper investigates holographic thermalization in a confining background, modeling heavy ion collisions and showing that entropy production aligns with experimental particle multiplicity data from RHIC and LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using an intermediate confining background to approximate entropy production in holographic heavy ion collisions.

Findings

Entropy dependence on energy matches experimental data.

Short-time domain shock wave collisions effectively model particle multiplicities.

Confining background provides realistic insights into thermalization processes.

Abstract

We study holographic thermalization of a strongly coupled theory inspired by two colliding shock waves in a vacuum confining background. Holographic thermalization means a black hole formation, in fact a trapped surface formation. As a vacuum confining background we considered a well know bottom-up AdS/QCD model that provides the Cornell potential as well as reproduces QCD beta-function. We perturb vacuum background by colliding domain shock waves, that are assumed to be holographically dual to heavy ions collisions. Our main physical assumption is that we can make a restriction on the time of a trapped surface production that makes a natural limitation on the size of the domain where the trapped surface is produced. This limits the intermediate domain where the main part of the entropy is produced. In this domain one can use an intermediate vacuum background as an approximation to the full confining background. In this intermediate background a dependence of the produced entropy on colliding energy is very similar to the experimental dependence of particles multiplicities on colliding ions energy obtained from RHIC and LHC. This permits us to conclude that the entropy produced in collisions of domain shock waves during a short time models rather well the experimental data.