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Holographic meson mass in asymmetric dense matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-19 v1

Abstract

We study a meson mass splitting due to isospin violation in holographic dense matter. We work in a D4/D6/D6 model with two quark flavor branes to consider asymmetric dense matter in holographic QCD. We mainly consider two cases. We first consider m+/mmd/mum^+/m^-\sim m_d/m_u to study the effect of isospin violation on the meson masses. Then, we take m+/mms/mqm^+/m^-\sim m_s/m_q, where mq(mu+md)/2m_q\sim(m_u+m_d)/2, to calculate in-medium kaon-like meson masses. In both cases we observe that the mass splitting of charged mesons occurs at low densities due to the asymmetry, while at high densities their masses become degenerate. At intermediate densities, we find an exotic behavior in masses which could be partly understood in a simple picture based on the Pauli exclusion principle.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2751,
  title  = {Holographic meson mass in asymmetric dense matter},
  author = {Youngman Kim and Yunseok Seo and Ik Jae Shin and Sang-Jin Sin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2751},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, 7 figures