Odderon in Gauge/String Duality
Abstract
At high energies, elastic hadronic cross sections, such as , are dominated by vacuum exchange, which in leading order of the expansion has been identified as the BFKL Pomeron or its strong AdS dual the closed string Reggeized graviton \cite{Brower:2006ea}. However the difference of particle anti-particle cross sections are given by a so-called Odderon, carrying C = -1 vacuum quantum numbers identified in weak coupling with odd numbers of exchanged gluons. Here we show that in the dual description the Odderon is the Reggeized Kalb-Ramond field () in the Neveu-Schwartz sector of closed string theory. To first order in strong coupling, the high energy contribution of Odderon is evaluated for Super Yang-Mills by a generalization of the gravity dual analysis for Pomeron in Ref. \cite{Brower:2006ea}. The consequence of confinement on the Odderon are estimated in the confining QCD-like hardwall model of Polchinski and Strassler \cite{Polchinski:2001tt}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.0354,
title = {Odderon in Gauge/String Duality},
author = {Richard C. Brower and Marko Djurić and Chung-I Tan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0354},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
69 pages, 6 figures. Title change to better reflect the content of the paper. More discussion added in the Comments section. To be published in JHEP