Parton Energy Loss in Strongly Coupled AdS/CFT

Abstract

This is a brief review of the theory and phenomenology of parton energy loss in strongly coupled field theories with a gravity dual and its comparison with parton energy loss in QCD at weak coupling.

Comments: Invited lecture at Hard Probes 2010, Eilat, Israel. Error in Table 1 and Fig. 7 corrected (thanks to E. Iancu)