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Hadron Masses and Screening from AdS Wilson Loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that in strongly coupled N=4 SYM the binding energy of a heavy and a light quark is independent of the strength of the coupling constant. As a consequence we are able to show that in the presence of light quarks the analog of the QCD string can snap and color charges are screened. The resulting neutral mesons interact with each other only via pion exchange and we estimate the masses

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211107,
  title  = {Hadron Masses and Screening from AdS Wilson Loops},
  author = {Andreas Karch and Emanuel Katz and Neal Weiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211107},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, revtex

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