English

Chiral symmetry breaking and restoration from holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We study intersection of NcN_c color D4 branes with NfN_f Dp-branes and anti-Dp branes in the strong coupling limit in the probe approximation. The resulting model has U(Nf)×U(Nf)U(N_f)\times U(N_f) global symmetry. We see an nn dimensional theory for nn overlapping directions between color and flavor branes. At zero temperature we do see the breakdown of chiral symmetry, but there arises a puzzle: we do not see any massless NG boson to the break down of the chiral symmetry group for n=2,3n=2,3 for a specific p. At finite temperature we do see the restoration of chiral symmetry group and the associated phase transitions are of first order. The chiral symmetry restoration is described by a curve, which connects L, the asymptotic distance of separation between the auarks, with the temperature, T. In general this quantity is very difficult to compute but if we evaluate it numerically then the curve is described by an equation LT=cL T=c, where c is a constant and is much smaller than one. It means for L/RτL/R_{\tau} above 2πc2\pi c there occurs the deconfined phase along with the chiral symmetryrestored phase.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0608229,
  title  = {Chiral symmetry breaking and restoration from holography},
  author = {D. Gepner and Shesansu Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0608229},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

39 pp; Typos fixed, ref, added, and the configuration at zero temperature is clarified