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Baryons from instantons in holographic QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider aspects of dynamical baryons in a holographic dual of QCD that is proposed on the basis of a D4/D8-brane configuration. We construct a soliton solution carrying a unit baryon number and show that it is given by an instanton solution of four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with fixed size. The Chern-Simons term on the flavor D8-branes plays a crucial role of protecting the instanton from collapsing to zero size. By quantizing the collective coordinates of the soliton, we work out the baryon spectra. Negative-parity baryons as well as baryons with higher spins and isospins can be obtained in a simple manner.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0701280,
  title  = {Baryons from instantons in holographic QCD},
  author = {Hiroyuki Hata and Tadakatsu Sakai and Shigeki Sugimoto and Shinichiro Yamato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0701280},
  year   = {2010}
}

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25 pages, v2: references added, minor changes, v3: PTP-style, minor corrections

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