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Gravitational form factor of the kaon in holographic QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-12-03 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The gravitational form factor (GFF) of the kaon is investigated in a bottom-up holographic QCD model, in which the strange quark mass breaks the SU(3) flavor symmetry. The probe energy (Q2Q^2) dependence of the kaon GFF is explicitly shown and compared to that of the pion. It is presented that our result shows the 1/Q21/Q^2 behavior in the high energy region, which is consistent with the perturbative QCD prediction. The gravitational radius of the kaon is also calculated, and it is found that the result is quite close to that of the pion but slightly smaller.

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@article{arxiv.2503.18747,
  title  = {Gravitational form factor of the kaon in holographic QCD},
  author = {Zhibo Liu and Akira Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18747},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D