Jet quenching via gravitational radiation in thermal AdS space-time

We argue that classical bulk gravitational radiation effects in AdS/CFT, previously ignored because of their subleading nature in the 1/N _c expansion, are magnified by powers of large Lorentz factors γ for ultrarelativistic jets, thereby dominating other forms of jet energy loss in holography at finite temperature. We make use of the induced gravitational self-force in thermal anti-de Sitter to estimate its effects. In a thermal medium, relativistic jets may lose most of their energy through longitudinal drag caused by the energy accumulated in their nearby field as they zip through the strongly coupled plasma.