Baryon charge from embedding topology and a continuous meson spectrum in a new holographic gauge theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2010)073zbMATH Open1287.81102arXiv0912.0752OpenAlexW1996113795MaRDI QIDQ2451964FDOQ2451964

Authors: Mark Van Raamsdonk, Kevin Whyte 

Publication date: 27 May 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a new holographic gauge theory based on probe D4-branes in the background dual to D4-branes on a circle with antiperiodic boundary conditions for fermions. Field theory configurations with baryons correspond to smooth embeddings of the probe D4-branes with nontrivial winding around an S^4 in the geometry. As a consequence, physics of baryons and nuclei can be studied reliably in this model using the abelian Born-Infeld action. However, surprisingly, we find that the meson spectrum is not discrete. This is related to a curious result that the action governing small fluctuations of the gauge field on the probe brane is the five-dimensional Maxwell action in Minkowski space despite the non-trivial embedding of the probe brane in the curved background geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0752

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceAdS-CFT correspondenceD-branesQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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