Adjoint trapping: a new phenomenon at strong 't Hooft coupling

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/012zbMATH Open1226.81267arXivhep-th/0410080OpenAlexW2067484314MaRDI QIDQ648648FDOQ648648

Authors: Sungho Hong, M. J. Strassler, Suk-Jin Yoon 

Publication date: 28 November 2011

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

Abstract: Adding matter of mass m, in the fundamental representation of SU(N), to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, we study ``generalized quarkonium containing a (s)quark, an anti(s)quark, and J massless (or very light) adjoint particles. At large 't Hooft coupling $lambda$ >> 1, the states of spin <= 1 are surprisingly light (Kruczenski et al., hep-th/0304032) and small (hep-th/0312071) with a J-independent size of order $sqrtlambda/m$. This ``trapping of adjoint matter in a region small compared with its Compton wavelength and compared to any confinement scale in the theory is an unfamiliar phenomenon, as it does not occur at small $lambda$. We explore adjoint trapping further by considering the limit of large J. In particular, for J >> $sqrtlambda$ >> 1, we expect the trapping phenomenon to become unstable. Using Wilson loop methods, we show that a sharp transition, in which the generalized quarkonium states become unbound (for massless adjoints) occurs at $Jsimeq0.22sqrtlambda$. If the adjoint scalars of N=4 are massive and the theory is confining (as, for instance, in N=1* theories) then the transition becomes a cross-over, across which the size of the states changes rapidly from ~$sqrtlambda/m$ to something of order the confinement scale ~ $Lambd{a}^{-1}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410080

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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