Confinement and screening via holographic Wilson loops
High Energy Physics - Theory
2024-09-10 v1
Abstract
We present the holographic dual to a family of SCFTs in four dimensions, deformed by a VEV leading to a gapped system. We calculate Wilson loops in this system containing adjoint, bifundamental and fundamental matter. We calculate the quark-antiquark energy in terms of their separation , finding an approximate analytic expression for . This expression shows the transition between conformal, confining and screened behaviours. Interesting phenomenology is discussed in a variety of examples. The tool used is the minimization of the F1 string action, for which the code used is made publicly available.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.04539,
title = {Confinement and screening via holographic Wilson loops},
author = {Mauro Giliberti and Ali Fatemiabhari and Carlos Nunez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04539},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
40 pages, various figures