String splitting and strong coupling meson decay
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the decay of high spin mesons using the gauge/string theory correspondence. The rate of the process is calculated by studying the splitting of a macroscopic string intersecting a D-brane. The result is applied to the decay of mesons in N=4 SYM with a small number of flavors and in a gravity dual of large N QCD. In QCD the decay of high spin mesons is found to be heavily suppressed in the regime of validity of the supergravity description.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0511045,
title = {String splitting and strong coupling meson decay},
author = {A. L. Cotrone and L. Martucci and W. Troost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0511045},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures. V2: References added. V3: Minor corrections