Light-like mesons and deep inelastic scattering in finite-temperature AdS/CFT with flavor

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2010)023zbMATH Open1270.81212arXiv0912.2238OpenAlexW2053996705WikidataQ59254826 ScholiaQ59254826MaRDI QIDQ360871FDOQ360871

A. H. Muelle, Edmond Iancu

Publication date: 27 August 2013

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

Abstract: We use the holographic dual of a finite-temperature, strongly-coupled, gauge theory with a small number of flavors of massive fundamental quarks to study meson excitations and deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in the low-temperature phase, where the mesons are stable. We show that a high-energy flavor current with nearly light-like kinematics disappears into the plasma by resonantly producing mesons in highly excited states. This mechanism generates the same DIS structure functions as in the high temperature phase, where mesons are unstable and the current disappears through medium-induced parton branching. To establish this picture, we derive analytic results for the meson spectrum, which are exact in the case of light-like mesons and which corroborate and complete previous, mostly numerical, studies in the literature. We find that the meson levels are very finely spaced near the light-cone, so that the current can always decay, without a fine-tuning of its kinematics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2238

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zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionAdS-CFT correspondencedeep inelastic scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• Mesons in marginally deformed AdS/CFT
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