Rotating mesons in the presence of higher derivative corrections from gauge–string duality Original Research Article

We consider a rotating quark–antiquark image pair in image thermal plasma. By using the AdS/CFT correspondence, the properties of this system are investigated. In particular, we study variation of a rotating string radius at the boundary as a function of its tip and angular velocity. We also extend the results to higher derivative corrections, i.e. image and image which correspond to finite coupling corrections on the rotating quark–antiquark system in the hot plasma. In the image case and for fixed angular velocity the string endpoints become more and more separated as image decreases. To study image corrections, rotating quark–antiquark system in Gauss–Bonnet background has been considered. We summarize the effects of these corrections in the conclusion section.