  A new shooting string holographic model of jet quenching of light quarks in
strongly coupled plasmas is presented to overcome the phenomenological
incompatibilities of previous falling string holographic scenarios that emerged
when confronted with the recent LHC data. This model is based on strings with
finite momentum endpoints that start close to the horizon and lose energy as
they approach the boundary. This framework is applied to compute the nuclear
modification factor RAA of light hadrons at RHIC and LHC, showing that this
model improves greatly the comparison with the recent light hadron suppression
data. The effects of the Gauss-Bonnet quadratic curvature corrections to the
AdS5 geometry further improve the agreement with the data.
