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Heavy Quarkonium Spectrum and Decay Constants from a Neural-Network-Based Holographic Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-05 v2

Abstract

We present a data-driven inverse construction of the dilaton field in a bottom-up AdS/QCD description of heavy vector quarkonia. Instead of adopting an \emph{ad hoc} analytic ansatz, we use a multilayer perceptron to learn Φ(z)\Phi'(z) as a smooth function of the holographic coordinate, with Φ(0)=0\Phi(0)=0 imposed to ensure ultraviolet consistency. The dilaton and its derivatives obtained by automatic differentiation generate the holographic potential U(z)U(z), and the associated Schr\"odinger-like equation is discretized and diagonalized to extract the low-lying eigenmodes. Masses and decay constants are then evaluated from the eigenvalues and the near-boundary behavior of the bulk-to-boundary modes. Training on PDG data for charmonium and bottomonium yields a non-quadratic dilaton profile that resolves the longstanding difficulty of simultaneously reproducing both the heavy-quarkonium spectrum and the monotonic suppression of leptonic decay constants with radial excitation. The combined fit achieves RMS deviations of 1.26%1.26\% (charmonium) and 3.32%3.32\% (bottomonium). This work establishes neural-network reconstruction as a flexible tool for holographic modeling and provides a basis for future extensions incorporating additional channels, lattice constraints, or finite-temperature backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.2601.18133,
  title  = {Heavy Quarkonium Spectrum and Decay Constants from a Neural-Network-Based Holographic Model},
  author = {Yu Zhang and Xun Chen and Miguel Angel Martin Contreras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.18133},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables