Hadronic linear potentials in AdS/CFT
Abstract
In 1998, J. M. Maldacena conjectured a precise duality in the low-energy (or decoupling) regime between a large N strongly-coupled SU(N) super-Yang-Mills theory defined in the four-dimensional Minkowski world-volume M^4 of a stack of N coincident D3-branes and the supergravity limit of a weakly-coupled type IIB closed superstring theory on AdS_5*S^5. This communication aims at introducing concepts and methods used to derive, in the gauge/string correspondence framework, the interaction potentials of mesons and baryons at zero and finite temperature. Especially, emphasize will be made on the linear behavior of the bound-state potentials derived in the gravity side. Although AdS/CFT cannot be applied ab initio to QCD-like gauge theories and remains a controversial topic, at least at zero temperature, we will also discuss AdS/QCD criteria proposed for a holographic description of the mechanism of confinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.0502,
title = {Hadronic linear potentials in AdS/CFT},
author = {Frédéric Jugeau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0502},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Invited talk at the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics, Joint Conference: CBPF-IMPA-ICTP-SISSA-TWAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-20 April 2012. 7 pages. To appear in JHEP - PoS Proceedings of Science