Jet Quenching in Holographic QCD as an Indicator of Phase Transitions in Anisotropic Regimes

TL;DR

This study uses holographic QCD models based on gauge/gravity duality to analyze jet quenching as a probe for phase transitions in anisotropic quark-gluon plasma, revealing how JQ varies with temperature, chemical potential, magnetic field, and anisotropy.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic QCD framework incorporating anisotropy and phase transition analysis, connecting jet quenching behavior with the QCD phase diagram in a novel way.

Findings

JQ parameter effectively signals first-order phase transitions.

JQ varies significantly with anisotropy parameter $ u$.

Critical regions in the phase diagram are mapped using JQ dependence.

Abstract

In this paper, we employ the gauge/gravity duality to study jet quenching (JQ) phenomena in the quark-gluon plasma. For this purpose, we implement holographic QCD models constructed from an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity at finite temperature and finite chemical potential for light and heavy quarks. The models capture both the confinement and deconfinement phases of QCD and the first-order phase transitions. We calculate the JQ parameter in different models and compare them with the experimental data obtained in heavy-ions studies. In particular, we investigate how JQ, as a function of temperature $T$, chemical potential $\mu$, and magnetic field $c_B$, serves as a probe for identifying first-order phase transitions within the $(T,\mu,c_B)$ parameter space of holographic QCD. Particular attention is paid to the dependence of JQ on the parameter $\nu$, which characterizes longitudinal versus transverse anisotropy relative to the heavy-ion collision axis. By analyzing the dependence of the JQ parameters on these thermodynamic variables, we map critical regions associated with phase boundaries. We compare our findings to earlier studies of the running coupling constant's behavior within the gauge-gravity duality framework. This approach provides new insights into the interplay between non-perturbative dynamics and phase structure in strongly coupled systems.